Our daily bread (film, 2005)

Our bread daily ( Unser täglich Brot ) is an Austrian film carried out in 2005 by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, left to France in 2007.

Synopsis

Documentary without music and comment. It is using fixed plans in factories, slaughter-houses, greenhouses, fields, etc that Nikolaus Geyrhalter describes the production process of modern agribusiness industry.

Comments and analyzes

What challenges through this film is first of all the distant place of the Man in this process. With Charlie Chaplin in Modern times, excesses come from the man/machine union and the shifts which result from this. Our bread daily evacuates the man as actor of this process and places it as operator. It is not the existence of the technical division of work but its extension and its increase which is in the middle of this work. The central place of the act production moved of the man towards the machine. The second report is the ritualisation of animal death by the effects of the automatism of the machines. The living being became an object of production comparable to any other produced and is introduced fully into the process. This compatibility of alive as object of production with agribusiness industry worries because it touches a particular field of the human needs to know our food. Lastly, which reinforces this concern is the difficulty of locating the places of production. This difficulty makes it possible to prove that the phenomenon of industrialization while developing through spaces breaks with the former and diversified practices production for tending towards a single and standardized model.

Data sheet

Title: Our daily bread
original Title: Unser täglich Brot
Realization: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Scenario: Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Wolfgang Widerhofer
Production: Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Markus Glaser
Music: Unknown
Photography: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Assembly: Wolfgang Widerhofer
Decorations: Unknown
Costumes: Unknown
Country of origin: Austria
Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Dolby DIGITAL - 35 mm
Kind: Documentary
Lasted: 92 minutes
Coming out date: March 14th 2007

Distribution

Jens Christian: He even
József Fodor: He even
Malgorzata Nowak: It even
Gudrun Schulze: It even
Antonio Vergara: He even
Dieter Voigt: He even

See too

We Feed the World

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