Episode 5
FRG 1979, directed by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss, German without subtitles, rated: 12
Miner Alphons S. (1906–1979) talks openly and frankly about his life as a child and teenager in the Ruhr area as a farmhand, journeyman, anarchist and left-wing socialist in the period from 1906 to 1939. This portrait is an early highlight of cinematic oral history, bringing to life 20th-century Germany from the perspective of a worker and eyewitness full of shrewd insight.