He Called Himself Surava

He Called Himself Surava

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 7, 1995

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Er nannte sich Surava

Production Companies

Langfilm

Director

Erich Schmid

Description

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.