A MAN OF SIX COUNTRIES

Germany, 1955. A young boy befriends a very old man, whose remarkable unremarkable life spans more than nine decades. Extending from the time of Napoleon III, when the individual small states throughout German lands were still ruled by aristocratic families, through the industrial revolution, a series of wars culminating in the devastation of WWI and the disastrous rise of the Nazi regime, all the way to the beginnings of the Federal Republic of Germany, the old man's very personal reflecti...