According to the Swiss documentary filmmaker Richard Dindo (1944), the media want to make us believe that Swiss non-alignment during World War II was only a thin veneer around Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic feelings. This stirred his interest in the story of Paul Grüninger, a Swiss policeman who in the late thirties provided false travel documents to hundreds of Jews who had fled from Austria.
Stefan Kurt | Paul Grüninger |
Maximilian Simonischek | Robert Frei |
Anatole Taubman | Sidney Dreifuss |
Helmut Förnbacher | Valentin Keel |
Julia Jelinek | Jüdin |
Robert Hunger-Bühler | Heinrich Rothmund |
Martin Klaus | Anton Schneider |
Beat Marti | Alfons Eigenmann |
Aaron Hitz | Ernst Kamm |
Pascal Holzer | Farmer |
Peter Jecklin | Walter Härtsch |
Patrick Rapold | Ernest Prodollier |