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He Called Himself 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.

1h 20m1995TMDb 9.0

German

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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.

  • Langfilm

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Original title
Er nannte sich Surava
Status
Released
Released
7 April 1995
Runtime
1h 20m
TMDB score
9.0 / 10 (1 votes)

Production

Director
Erich Schmid
Writers
Erich Schmid
Studios
Langfilm
Countries
Switzerland

Languages

Original
German
Spoken
German