Jan 30, 2014
100 min
Full-HD

The Grüninger File (2014)

1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.

Category

History Drama

Country

Switzerland

Companies

C-Films ZDF

Stefan Kurt

Paul Grüninger

Maximilian Simonischek

Robert Frei

Anatole Taubman

Sidney Dreifuss

Ursina Lardi

Alice Grüninger

Helmut Förnbacher

Valentin Keel

Julia Jelinek

Jüdin

Robert Hunger-Bühler

Heinrich Rothmund

Martin Klaus

Anton Schneider

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