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Das Brot des Bäckers: Directed by Erwin Keusch. With Bernd Tauber, Günter Lamprecht, Maria Lucca, Silvia Reize. A young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.
- (94)
- Drama
- Erwin Keusch
- 1979-11-15
West Germany. Runtime. 2 hr 3 min. Premiere: World. November 15, 1979. Production Companies. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Artus-Film Prokino Filmproduktion. Drama. A young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.
Review by Christof ★★★★. Alternative title: Das Brot. A classic of 1970s German cinema, though I doubt it is well-known outside Germany - or even available (well, it is on Youtube, but I assume the problem will be subtitles). The film is told through the eyes of Werner, a young man who starts an apprenticeship in the bakery of Mr Baum ...
- Erwin Keusch
Culinary Cinema 2010. ©. Master baker Baum (Günter Lamprecht) is worried. A supermarket has opened near his bakery and is ruining his business with cheap, industrially produced bread rolls. Not even running amok in the supermarket can hinder its success. It could be a story from today, but the film was made in the 1970s.
A minor key, low-budget delight with an appropriate ‘small is beautiful’ theme: an elaborately naturalistic account of a young baker’s progress through apprenticeship and adolescence.
The movie describes the troubles in a small bakery in Bavaria that gets in trouble when a neighboring supermarket tries to force the bakery out of the market. The bakery bakes good bread without any chemistry.
Werner Wild becomes an apprentice to Baum, a small-town baker who maintains old-fashioned production methods to preserve quality. But the workings of competitive society and the pressures on the individual, i.e. the baker's syndicate versus Baum's traditionalist methods, proves too much for the latter, and he must conform.
