Apatride – Klaus Rózsa, photographe

A well-known and politically active photographer, Klaus Rózsa lived as a stateless person in Zurich for decades. His three applications for naturalization were all refused on political grounds: he disrupted police work by taking photographs of police abuse. Strongly affected by the fate of his Jewish father, who survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, Klaus Rózsa battled injustice within the state. He later fought for media freedom in Switzerland, where he was so often harassed and beaten by the police that in 2008 he emigrated to Budapest. This film profile by Erich Schmid delves into the notions of freedom of the press and the recognition of human rights.