The baker's bread
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Original title | The baker's bread |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1976 |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Erwin Keusch |
script |
Erwin Keusch Karl Saurer |
production | Arthur movie |
music | Improved Sound Limited |
camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
cut | Lilo Kruger |
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The Baker's Bread is director Erwin Keusch's film debut , which was filmed in 1976 in Hersbruck , Central Franconia .
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The film tells the experiences and needs of the baker's apprentice Werner, who is learning the trade in the family-run Baum bakery. The bakery soon ran into trouble after a supermarket opened in the neighborhood that embroiled the bakery in a price war. The apprentice's first experiences with the opposite sex are also presented with a wink. After an escapade with the saleswoman Gisela ends almost catastrophically, he grapples with his girlfriend Margot again.
After a while, the baker decides to adapt to the challenge of the supermarket. He automates his baking processes and buys new machines for this on credit. The apprentice, who has meanwhile passed the journeyman's examination, reluctantly takes up a new job in a large bakery. After a while, the master baker works alone in the bakery. There is no financial success.
When the baker realizes that he cannot compete against the supermarket in the long run, he breaks into the supermarket at night, devastates the bread department and allows himself to be arrested by the police. He refuses an offer from the policeman he knows to plead drunkenness. His professional career can no longer be saved.
The baker's son and the other journeymen come up with a solution: The bakery specializes in the things that the supermarket doesn't offer - e.g. B. organic breads and wholemeal bread. This means that the bakery can still be kept and the former apprentice who left the company can also be employed again.
Reviews
The film received good reviews and made director Erwin Keusch known worldwide in the cinema scene .
- "A very concrete and sensually staged film that cleverly combines everyday family life and social problems." ( Lexicon of international film )
- "What Moby Dick is to whaling, this film is to bread-baking." ( Financial Times )
- In Medium magazine, Wolfgang Ruf felt that "the slightly nostalgic small town scene [...] sometimes reminded him of Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show ".
"From the didactic boldness of Berlin workers' films, in which the characters mostly wither into ciphers of social forces, just as far removed as from the facade realism of German television series, Keusch treats his people with careful sympathy, without ever seeing the social conditions of theirs Losing problems. "
Others
- Erwin Keusch's parents ran a bakery, which is why the director was able to incorporate his own experiences into the film.
- Several actors played together again five years later in the film Das Boot .
- The Hersbruck bakery, which served as the location for the film, was given up in 2010.
- A company from Munich that still exists today was used as the backdrop for the large bakery shown in the film for interior shots. The Neuperlach district , in which the bakery was then, was also suitable for an outdoor shot with its high-rise facades.
Awards
- Movie predicate "particularly valuable" of the Film Review Board
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize 1978 for Erwin Keusch
- Film tape in silver (other full-length films) for Erwin Keusch
- Film tape in gold (actor award) for Bernd Tauber
Web links
- The bread baker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bread of the baker at Filmportal.de
- The bread of the baker at moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The baker's bread. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Nigel Andrews . In: The Financial Times , quoted here from: Robert Fischer, Joe Hembus: Der Neue Deutsche Film, 1960-1980 . 2nd Edition. Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10211-1 , p. 125 (Citadel film books; Goldmann Magnum; 10211)
- ^ Robert Fischer, Joe Hembus: Der Neue Deutsche Film, 1960-1980 . 2nd Edition. Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10211-1 , p. 126 (Citadel film books; Goldmann Magnum; 10211)
- ↑ Wolfgang Limmer: Master baker's apprenticeship, The Baker's Bread: Feature film by Erwin Keusch. Germany 1977 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1977, pp. 185-188 ( online ).