In the life of Walter Kaufmann, who lives in Berlin and is now 97 years old, important events, catastrophes, and tremors of the last century which continue to have an impact on our present day. are reflected in the most extraordinary way. The film follows the adventurous journeys and experiences of the Jewish, German-Australian writer all over the world: Germany, USA, Israel, Cuba, Japan, Northern Ireland, Australia. Since his youth, Walter Kaufmann has sided with the persecuted, disenfranchised, and humiliated on earth. His thirst for adventure is an expression of a cosmopolitan spirit.
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