He Called Himself Surava (1995)
Er nannte sich Surava
Hans Werner Hirsch a.k.a. 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.
- Date of release
- 1995-04-07
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Erich Schmid
Casting
- Peter Surava — Self
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