Overview

In the late 1980s, a street musician appeared in Moscow who called himself German Baron von Draugel and claimed to be a disciple of the famous jazz musician Eddie Rosner. He asserted that in 1945, as a young boy, he was taken prisoner by Soviet forces, spent half of his life in Magadan camps, and it was there that Rosner taught him to play the trumpet. He told numerous stories about himself, the authenticity of which the well-known Moscow journalist Gennady Zhavoronkov tried to verify. As a result of this journalistic investigation, a completely different picture emerges...