Our Daily Bread (1949)
Unser täglich Brot (original title)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Viktoria von Ballasko	...	Martha Webers
	Paul Bildt	...	Karl Webers
	Harry Hindemith	...	Ernst Webers
	Helmuth Helsig	...	Ingenieur
	Inge Landgut	...	Inge Webers
	Paul Edwin Roth	...	Harry Webers
	Angelika Hurwicz	...	Nikki
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Waltraud Backmann
	Alfred Balthoff	...	Bergstetter
	Erich Dunskus	...	Wirt
	Hans Emons	...	Geschäftsmann
	Horst Gentzen
	Friedrich Gnaß	...	Albrecht, a worker (as Friedrich Gnaas)
	Walter Gross	...	Skeptiker
	Dorit Guenther	...	Webers' Twin Daughter

Storyline

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory. With this film, director Slatan Dudow (1903-1963) continued the traditions of proletarian German film from the Weimar Republic. As with his first feature film Kuhle Wampe, from a screenplay by Bertolt Brecht, Dudow wanted an art that "cultivates the viewer's psyche." His postwar films were intended to make the viewers realize the importance of supporting the "new order" in East Germany. Our Daily Bread became known as a premiere... Written by DEFA Film Library  

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