Lebens-Geschichte des Bergarbeiters Alphons S.(1978)

movie - first aired/released 1978-01-06 - 256 min

Documentary

Directed by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

In eight parts, Alphons S. tells the story of his life as a child and teenage miner in the Ruhr region, as a vagrant traveling across Germany in the 1920s, as a farm worker on estates in Mecklenburg, as an anarchist and left-wing socialist—but above all as an intelligent and alert witness to everyday history from 1906 to 1939.