The baker's bread

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Movie
Original title The baker's bread
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1976
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erwin Keusch
script Erwin Keusch
Karl Saurer
production Arthur movie
music Improved Sound Limited
camera Dietrich Lohmann
cut Lilo Kruger
occupation

The Baker's Bread is director Erwin Keusch's film debut , which was filmed in 1976 in Hersbruck , Central Franconia .

action

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 .

"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. "

- Wolfgang Limmer : The mirror

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The baker's bread. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 29, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. 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)
  3. ^ 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)
  4. 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 ).