From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   Hey,   
      
   Sometimes getting reliable information about East German films can be   
   difficult. For example, the DEFA book has nothing on this film. The East   
   German Cinema Blog has a lot of information about the director, the cast, and   
   other important details, and also    
   this statement:   
      
   “There is a stereotype in the West about the films from communist countries:   
   That they’re all about the struggles of the working class against   
   oppression; that they’re shot in the style of socialist realism popularized   
   by Russian directors; that    
   they’re full of hokum about the importance of agriculture and tractors . . .   
   [Our Daily Bread] is the perfect example of the communist film, right down to   
   the parade of tractors at the end.”   
      
   The gist is a family living in the eastern sector of Germany – this is years   
   before the wall, when people could travel freely within the country – and   
   the various possibilities for them: socialism, capitalism, and crime as   
   manifested in the black    
   market.   
      
   Before the “parade of tractors,” there is a crime that occurs that seems   
   to subvert the entire basis of the supposed propaganda. Whether this is a   
   typical reading of the film isn't something I can say with any authority. The   
   film is available on    
   Kanopy.   
      
   Directed by Slatan Dudow – who directed 1932's Who Owns The World written by   
   Bertold Brecht – from a script by Dudow, Hans Joachim Beyer, and Ludwig   
   Turek. Cinematography by Robert Baberske and music by Hanns Eisler. Starring   
   Viktotia von Ballsako,    
   Paul Bildt, and Harry Hindemith, among others.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)