Wolfgang Suschitzky - A brush with the secret police (Part 1) (8/36)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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Born in Austria, Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912-2016) trained as a photographer and became one of the first in his field to take portraits of animals. After coming to England he worked with Paul Rotha as the cameraman on various documentaries and films such as 'Ulysses' and 'Get Carter'. [Listener: Misha Donat]

TRANSCRIPT: What had attracted me to the documentary movement was that they stated that they want to make films which are useful to society and that I did appreciate and I was very glad to join them. During the war, I was still considered an enemy alien of course. I refused to have a German passport and I got a stateless document as an identity document. I was allowed to travel anywhere in Britain with my work, but not into ports. I was not allowed in ports, and one time I forgot this restriction. We were... we were in Liverpool.

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