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Staatenlos - Klaus Rózsa, Fotograf

Staatenlos - Klaus Rózsa, Fotograf

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 2016

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Staatenlos - Klaus Rózsa, Fotograf

Production Companies

Ariadnefilm GmbH, SRF

Director

Erich Schmid

Description

Klaus Rozsa, a well-known and politically active photographer, lived in Zurich for decades as a stateless individual. All of his applications for naturalisation were refused on political grounds. In 1956 he fled Hungary, growing up in Switzerland with a Jewish father who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. Due to the extreme proximity of such a fate, the camera led him repeatedly to places where injustice was done. It was this particular quality of his camerawork that proved fateful for him.