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Construction work is currently blocking road access for cars you have to walk the last stretch to reach the house at Trump Freinsheimer Strasse 20 Kallstadt, a small wine village in the southwestern part of Germany, in the Rhineland -Palatinate.
The house at that address is modest, with a pale facade and tiny windows This is the residence where the grandfather of Donald Trump lived before emigrating from Germany to the United States and made his legendary fortune.
This little house and the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York are worlds apart, but they collide briefly in the documentary Kings of Kallstadt, directed by Simone Wendel.
The filmmaker, also born in Kallstadt, meets Donald Trump in his New York office and shows him a picture of the home of his ancestor Beautiful, he says, which seems a bit exaggerated, given how modest building.
The director remembers that Trump was a bit reserved at the beginning of their conversation, but he warmed up as they discussed his grandfather - a subject he didn t talk very often.
Trump grandfather, Frederick Trump, Kallstadt left for the United States in 1885. In New York, he went to the Yukon, northwest Canada, after the gold rush.
Today, Frederick Trump would probably be defined as an economic refugee - Donald and his grand-son does not hesitate to use a belligerent tone against such persons in its presidential election campaign.
This attitude doesn t make it very popular in Kallstadt Ask around in the village meeting places, for example at the counter of the butcher Call, where a large poster advertising polemical statements stomach Paradise Trump pork against the refugees impossible; after all, his father was also said Edelhard Kellermann.
Villagers used to have a better opinion of Donald Trump, before he began his tumultuous campaign, Simone Wendel interviews conducted with German parent family Trump it a few years ago for its kings film Kallstadt reveal.
Donald Trump seems to have inherited at least a typical characteristic attributed to the people of Kallstadt in the area, they are nicknamed Brulljesmacher, regional dialect boastful.
Donald's grandfather didn t go digging for himself gold One parent says in the film that was too low for this type of work, rather he opened a restaurant for minors and they l 'paid with their gold Frederick Trump sent the gold nuggets to New York to his wife, Elizabeth.
She bought land with gold, and as the basis of the real estate empire Trumps.
Trump is not the only millionaire with roots in Kallstadt The family of the founder of the Heinz ketchup dynasty also came from the same village.
In his film, Wendel wonder why these two businessmen exceptional success came from Kallstadt and creates a wonderfully weird portrait of his hometown.
Since the film's release in 2014, became famous Kallstadt Journalists continue to appear at the gates of German parents Donald Trump A Japanese TV crew was also stomach Paradise Trump pork also promised in the film that should -it go to Germany, he also would drop by Kallstadt and visit the house where his grandfather lived.
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