The Grüninger File (2014)
Akte Grüninger
1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.
- Date of release
- 2014-01-30
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Director
- Alain Gsponer
Casting
- Stefan Kurt — Paul Grüninger
- Maximilian Simonischek — Robert Frei
- Anatole Taubman — Sidney Dreifuss
- Ursina Lardi — Alice Grüninger
- Helmut Förnbacher — Valentin Keel
- Julia Jelinek — Jüdin
- Robert Hunger-Bühler — Heinrich Rothmund
- Martin Klaus — Anton Schneider
- Beat Marti — Alfons Eigenmann
- Aaron Hitz — Ernst Kamm
- Pascal Holzer — Farmer
- Peter Jecklin — Walter Härtsch
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Switzerland and Austria
Akte Grüninger is a Swiss-Austrian feature film produced in 2013 for the Swiss television SRF. The television film focuses on events in late summer 1938, when Paul Grüninger saved the lives of up to 3,600 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria by pre-dating their visas, enabling them to migrate 'illegally' to Switzerland.
Production
Akte Grüninger was produced by the Swiss television broadcaster SRF, and supported by the arte network and by the Fernsehfonds Austria foundation. The film's plot is complemented by historic cuts. Shooting took place in the canton of St.
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