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This film deals with the extraordinary life of Eddie Rosner, the first jazz musician of the Communist world, child prodigy and one of the youngest trumpet players in Europe during the twenties, the man whom Armstrong himself nicknamed the "White Armstrong". It is also about the man who was persecuted by the Nazis as a degenerate musician, whom Stalin consecrated as a State Musician before banishing him to the Gulag, and who was the wandering Jew who moved through the history of jazz, of Europe, of the Soviet Empire. Rosner experienced it all: fame, exile, horror, genius and poverty. For the first time, this documentary sets out to retrace, through a multitude of rare documents, film archives and accounts from Rosner's contemporaries, the fascinating, moving and glorious adventures of this legendary figure, an extraordinary, endearing, generous man, who had everything and lost everything - except for his deep love of jazz.

France / Germany - 1999 - 58 mn - Betacam SP - Colour and B&W

Réalisation Pierre-Henry Salfati Scénario Natalia Sazonova, Pierre-Henry Salfati Montage Laure-Alice Hervé

Production Idéale Audience, 6, rue de l'Agent-Bailly, 75009 Paris, France Tél : 01 53 20 14 06 Fax : +33 (0)1 5320 1401 E-mail : ideale@ideale-audience.fr Co-Production France 3, WestDeutscher Rundfunk

Ventes Idéale Audience, 13 rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, F, 6, rue de l'Agent-Bailly, 75009 Paris, France Tél : 01 42 77 89 69 Fax : 01 42 77 36 56 E-mail : scott@ideale-audience.fr