He Called Himself Surava (1995)
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.
Director: Erich Schmid
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Peter Surava as Self |
| Directing | Erich Schmid | Director |
| Editing | Wilma Sieber-Panke | Editor |
| Writing | Erich Schmid | Writer |
| Camera | Pio Corradi | Director of Photography |