For daily bread (hunger in Waldenburg)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | For daily bread (Hunger in Waldenburg) For daily bread hunger In Waldenburg |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 47 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Piel Jutzi |
| script | Leo Lania |
| production |
Willi Münzenberg Leo Lania for Film-Kartell (Berlin) on behalf of the Volksfilmverband / Theater am Schiffbauerdamm |
| camera | Piel Jutzi |
| occupation | |
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Um's Daily Bread (Hunger in Waldenburg) is a medium-length, semi-documentary German silent film from 1929 by the director Piel Jutzi , the journalist Leo Lania and the communist newspaper magnate Willi Munzenberg .
action
The film begins with image settings that are intended to make the stark social contrast in the coal area around Waldenburg clear: Here the princely palace of the von Pless family, there the desperately poor workers' settlements of coal miners and weavers. After taking winter landscape shots, the tracking shot goes into the poor dwelling of an old Weber couple. Their son, who also works as a weaver, decides, after another wage cut, to leave the local job and try his luck in town. When he arrived in Waldenburg, he desperately asks for work, but to no avail. The young man is hungry and is about to steal a kipper from the display of goods in a small shop when a worker arrives and stops him at the last moment.
The buddy takes him to a young miner's widow who lives with her three half-orphan children in a terrible poor neighborhood. Despite the extremely cramped conditions, she takes the young man into her home. Soon the first, delicate bonds develop between the woman and the man who, despite the greatest effort, simply cannot find a job. The attempt to get a job with the mine management also fails. Back again, the young man has to watch as a violent argument ensues between the landlord and the desperately poor tenants, who once again cannot pay their rent. In the midst of the dispute, the job seeker falls into the hands of the landlord, who pushes him down the stairs in a scramble. The emaciated, exhausted man dies there as a result of the fall.
Production notes
Um's Daily Bread (Hunger in Waldenburg) , often only listed under Um's Daily Bread or Under Hunger in Waldenburg , was created in January 1929 on site in Waldenburg , Lower Silesia , which had around 45,000 inhabitants at the time and was the center of (then) East German coal mining. The five-stroke with a length of 1298 meters passed the censorship on March 13, 1929 and was banned from young people. The premiere took place on March 15, 1929 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . As a result of the National Socialist seizure of power, when socially critical films were not tolerated, Um's daily bread (hunger in Waldenburg) received a complete ban on showing on April 1, 1933.
Immediately after the appearance of Um's daily bread (Hunger in Waldenburg) in early 1929, several feature films were made in the same year, which were also critically devoted to social realities. One of them, Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück , was also staged by Jutzi and is considered his masterpiece.
Reviews
“While a few months ago reports of hardship and misery in the Waldenburg coal mine filled the newspapers, Leo Lania and Piel Jutzi made this film report on the spot, which has become a shocking document. (...) What you see: the desolate dilapidation and squalor of these workers' quarters and streets, the crampedness and crampedness of these living rooms and bedrooms, the desperate poverty of their residents - would have had an even more terrifying effect, if not a sentimental 'act', the objective urgency and the convincing power of the details, which are all the more admirable since the cameraman and director Jutzi had to do without all the tools in the studio. (...) Because he is less happy with his game management. The example of a worker and his fate that one has chosen is not clear enough. Even if it is based on the stories of the workers there, it would be more general if it were more gripping, more dramatic. "
“The authentic shots from the Waldenburg district are not as important as the plot, perhaps the most shocking is the photographic reproduction of a wage packet and a statement: a weaver earns 25 marks in three weeks there, and the children sleep there in margarine wooden boxes The water trickles down the bare walls, and when you have finished your work, the fight for your daily bread begins: will the grocer continue to borrow or not? Excellent work has been done here, also technically; that is the coverage of the future, a very near future. Later the film slips a bit into the sentimental; the young lad doesn't get a job, but you don't find out why he can't get a job. One would also have liked to see a little more of the internal workings of the factories, here one last thing is missing in terms of objectivity and clarity. "
“It is embarrassing to have to talk about the misery and hardship of a German part of the population indirectly through the film, which had its world premiere under the title HUNGER IN WALDENBURG in the Tauentzienpalast. Embarrassing because the tendency is not to bring this actually existing need close to the hearts of the audience, but because the only tendency is to bring capital and labor into sharp opposition and incitement, at a time when the German people are in His political and economic situation is particularly badly needed. "
“Scenes from the Waldenburg coal area show the plight of the workers there, but in such a form that one refuses to see these things on screen like that. The multiple juxtaposition of distress and images of saints is deliberate agitation, a hanging scene is tasteless. The film is certainly a harrowing document, but the way it is presented loses its power. The political purpose, which one can only weakly cover up, has a disparaging effect, all the more so as one must condemn the fact that this motive is provided with a party-political background. "
Web links
- About the daily bread at filmportal.de
- For the daily bread in the Internet Movie Database (English)