The Presidents’ Tailor

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Maxmilian Grünfeld learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz at the age of fifteen. Four years later, he re-invented himself as the American Martin Greenfield and began making suits for former general and future U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had liberated him from Buchenwald in 1945. From his modest beginnings as a floor boy at the GGG factory in Brooklyn in the late 1940s, Martin built a bespoke menswear empire together with his sons, Jay and Tod, with a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of the U.S. entertainment industry. Widely considered the greatest tailor in America, Martin remained a much-beloved figurehead at Greenfield Clothiers until COVID finally forced him into retirement at the age of 91.

The Presidents’ Tailor accompanies Martin and his family toward the end of his illustrious 71-year career and offers an inside look at how this family-run business continues to thrive by delivering “quality with intrinsic value.”

Director

Rick Minnich is an American independent filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an MFA-equivalent in film directing from the Film University Babelsberg “Konrad Wolf” in Germany. Since 1993, Minnich has been writing, directing, and producing short and feature-length documentaries under his labels Rickfilms and Our Man in Berlin, in association with various German broadcasters, film funds, and production companies.