Akte Grüninger (2014)
- Directed by
- Alain Gsponer
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Switzerland
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In late summer 1938, a Swiss police commander pre-dates visas to allow Jewish refugees to escape into Switzerland. The film shows him taking risks to help people while others try to stop him.
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What happens
Akte Grüninger is a Swiss-Austrian feature film produced in 2013 for the Swiss television SRF. The television film focuses on events in late summer 1938, when Paul Grüninger saved the lives of up to 3,600 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria by pre-dating their visas, enabling them to migrate 'illegally' to Switzerland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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