He Called Himself Surava

He Called Himself Surava

Original title: Er nannte sich Surava

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4/7/1995

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1h 20min

He Called Himself Surava

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Synopsis

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.

Direction: Erich Schmid

Screenwriter: Erich Schmid

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