Mr. Behrmann - Life Dream Death

'I´m a child, a storyteller, a wise prophet.' He wanders along the corridors of an old people´s home in London, around his flat and through his life. The memories which refuse to go away, the motley hats, photographs and a few songs from the old days. Mr. Behrmann is a Latvian Jew. His father, a rich timber merchant, owns a large estate. He sends his son to school in Cambridge. 1939 Joseph travels home from the summer holidays. On 1 September war breaks out and he doesn´t return to England. In July 1941 the Germans arrive and send the family to the ghetto. Those who haven´t already been killed by the Latvians now die. Joseph works for the Gestapo cleaning boots and cars. 'Why should a Jew tell how he survived?' After the war, the end of which he experiences in Buchenwald, he works for the American secret services censoring letters and tapping telephones. In the mid-50s he moves to England and starts a new life as an actor. 'The concentration camp was my best drama school.' He appears alongside Sinatra and Wolfgang Kieling. But the dream of a big break is never fulfilled. He is 70, ill and lonely. Everything is in the past. What does the future hold? Joseph Behrmann died on September 3, 1995.