He Called Himself Surava
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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.
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Erich Schmid Director · Pio Corradi Cinematographer Wilma Sieber-Panke Editor
First release April 7, 1995 · Produced in Switzerland · Original title Er nannte sich Surava
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Langfilm
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Switzerland
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Original title
Er nannte sich Surava
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Switzerland · April 7, 1995
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