Zürrer bakery

Movie
Original title	Zürrer bakery
Country of production	Switzerland
original language	Swiss German
Publishing year	1957
length	104 minutes
Rod
Director	Kurt Früh
script	Kurt Früh, Hans Mehringer , Eva Früh-Langraf , Emil Hegetschweiler
production	Max Dora , Gloria film
music	Walter Baumgartner
camera	Georges C. Stilly
cut	René Martinet
occupation
Emil Hegetschweiler : Master baker Zürrer Ettore Cella : Renzo Pizzani Margrit Winter : Trudi Zürrer Peter Brogle : Heini Zürrer Walter Morath : Richard Zürrer Maria Rezzonico : mother Pizzani Ursula Kopp : Gina Pizzani François Simon : Marcel Piboulot Armin Schweizer : Fink Max Werner Lenz : Tipper Max Haufler : the fat one Ellen Widmann : Landlady

Bäckerei Zürrer is a Swiss- made feature film by director Kurt Früh from 1957 .

The film is also known as Bäcker Zürrer and Konditorei Zürrer .

production

Bäckerei Zürrer , a film about a family of bakers from the Langstrasse district in Zurich , was the first project that Kurt Früh was able to develop independently and implement according to his own ideas. He wrote the script in collaboration with Hans Mehringer , Eva Früh-Langraf and Emil Hegetschweiler . As a trained pastry chef, the latter was determined to play the main role of master baker Zürrer from the start, while Ettore Cella took on the role of Italian retailer Renzo Pizzani . The other members of the Zürrer family played Margrit Winter as Trudi Zürrer and Peter Brogle as Heini Zürrer; with Walter Morath as Richard Zürrer, as in Früh's Polizischt Wäckerli, a Basel German speaker was signed as a negative figure. Pizzani's wife and daughter played Maria Rezzonico and Ursula Kopp .

The film is a production by Zurich Gloriafilm . The music was composed by Walter Baumgartner , the song Herr Lehmann was sung by Helen Vita . The camera was directed by Georges C. Stilly .

action

The widowed master baker Zürrer had to raise his three children alone. He does not like the fact that his youngest son, who is supposed to take over the bakery, is expecting a child from the daughter of the Italian retailer Pizzani, because he does not want her in his family. Meanwhile, his eldest son steals the last of his money and his daughter leaves him. Zürrer sells his bakery disappointed, but when he comes to terms with several benevolent deeds by the Pizzani family, he reverses the sale.

criticism

Werner Wider wrote in the book Der Schweizer Film 1929–1964 , published in the 1980s : “ Bäckerei Zürrer is not only Früh's best film, it is also the only high point of filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s. The film represents the first attempt in Switzerland to bring urban life to the screen. ”In the lexicon of international films , the film is described as“ a character image sketched with love and care, realistic and despite the excellent portrayal of the patriarchal baker, stretches across the board Moving sentimentality ”.

Web links

• Bakery Zürrer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Zürrer Bakery 1957 Film portrait on cyranos.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} tvprogramm.sf.tv : Bäckerei Zürrer in the television program of Swiss television , December 26, 2009, accessed on April 15, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b c} artfilm.ch : Bäckerei Zürrer , accessed on April 15, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} Zürrer bakery. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 15, 2010 .