Trois Soldats allemands

Thiis film, shot in eastern France, returns to some fragments of the history of Lorraine which formed the subject of the author's earlier film about family, entitled "The Fourth Generation". It is set in the perspective of the Franco-German wars which have profoundly affected the region, changing the nationality of the population several times in the space of a century. The starting point of the documentary was an astonishing discovery : the exhumation of the dead body of a German soldier in a private property on the outskirts of Sarrebourg (Moselle). The body had remained buried there since the end of the last war. An unkown soldier. When and how had he been killed, and why in this particular place ? The film investigates in an attempt to find out who the soldier was, and the circumstances of his death. It reveals, in the same place, the existence of several other characters whose mysterious fates had until now remained unknown : young people of Lorraine, forced to join the German army in three successive wars