He Called Himself Surava (1995)

Release Date: 1995-04-07
Runtime: 1h 20min
Production Company: Langfilm
Production Country: Switzerland
Director: Erich Schmid

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.