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He Called Himself Surava

19950.0 / 1080 min
Documentary

Overview

Hans Werner hirsch aka Surava was a journalist. He wrote about the deportation of French jews, and the Swiss government chased him because the Swiss government was Nazi-friendly. The Swiss intelligence service (Bundespolizei) knew him as a "communist jew". In fact, he worked for a left newspaper, but he wasn't a jew. Surava took his courage to write about the "censored" inhumanity in Europe.

Cast

Peter Surava

Peter Surava

Self

Crew

Erich Schmid

Erich Schmid

Director

Erich Schmid

Erich Schmid

Writer

Pio Corradi

Pio Corradi

Director of Photography

Wilma Sieber-Panke

Wilma Sieber-Panke

Editor