Our daily bread (1930)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Our daily bread |
| Original title | City girl |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau |
| script |
Marion Orth , Berthold Quarter |
| music | Arthur Kay |
| camera | Ernest Palmer |
| cut |
HH Caldwell Katherine Hilliker |
| occupation | |
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Our daily bread (original title City Girl ) is an American film drama from 1930. The film, whose screenplay is based on the play The Mud Turtle by Elliott Lester, is the penultimate directorial work by the German-born director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . The film premiered on February 16, 1930. In the same year it was also released in cinemas in Germany under the title “Our daily bread” . After the Second World War, the film was first broadcast on June 20, 1975 in the third program of NDR .
action
Lem Tustine is the son of a wheat farmer in Minnesota . Lem travels to Chicago to sell the year's harvest . But business is bad because of falling market prices. Lem meets the waitress Kate. He takes her to Minnesota and introduces her as his bride. His father thinks Kate is a cheat and wants to prevent the wedding. Lem's mother and little sister Marie accept Kate. Kate's attempts to convince her future father-in-law of her honest intentions fail.
A hailstorm threatens to destroy the wheat fields. The harvest has to be brought in during the night, and Lem's brother Mac injures his hand. When Kate tries to bandage his hand, he makes her advances. Kate rejects him, the father is a witness and informs Lem. Meanwhile, Mac is blackmailing Kate. He wants to fire the farm workers and leave them to the poverty caused by the global economic crisis if she does not marry him. Kate gives in so the workers can keep feeding their families.
A fight ensues between Lem and Mac. At the same time, the workers begin to rebel. Lem's father tries to calm things down with a rifle and accidentally shoots Lem's brother. With the death of his son, Lem's father begins to rethink and agrees to the planned wedding.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film writes about this film: “Although the contrast between town and country is evocatively worked out, in the end, theatrical imbalances and stirring clichés dominate. In terms of film history, it is nevertheless attractive. ” Cinema magazine also describes the film as a “ film historical pearl. ” The New York Times criticized the “ embarrassing effort ” to repeat the success of Murnau's Sunrise - Song of Two People .
background
The play on which the film was based was first performed on August 20, 1925 and was performed 52 times.
Director Murnau had first film as a silent film called Our Daily Bread ( Our Daily Bread conceived). After disagreements with the Fox Film Corporation studio , Murnau left the project, which was completed by assistant directors. Murnau did not agree to a dubbing. Today there is only one film version available that does not contain any scenes.
The bad relationship to the studio mentioned also contributed to the fact that Murnau was not able to engage Janet Gaynor , the star of his success Sunrise - A Song of Two People . He was forced to work with the untalented Mary Duncan, who was hired by the studio.
Web links
- Our Daily Bread in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our daily bread. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ City Girl. In: Cinema. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/9748/City-Girl/overview
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020768/trivia
- ↑ http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/city-girl/Film?oid=1065359
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/9748/City-Girl/overview