Ueli Maurers Pommes-Frites-Automat (2014)

A Swiss farmer is on a mission: to invent the perfect French-fries vending machine. Ueli Maurer (70) from Zurich-Wallisellen has spent at least the last ten years to get this machine to work. Despite many setbacks he has never given up. Ueli Maurer is quite a character, charming and the slightly weird inventor-type. With five years of shooting - in Switzerland, Holland, Germany and in Dubai - this film is an intimate portrait of a man who dedicates all his energy, time and money to achieve the ultimate goal: to get his machine ready for the world market. 'Ueli Maurer's French Fry Machine' is about the energy one man can set free, driven by his will, passion endurance and an optimistic view of life.