Our Daily Bread

Paľo Bielik / Slovakia / 1943 / Czech Premiere / 7 min.

synopsis

A film about the bread production process in the modern Nupod mill in Trnava.

A short cultural film about bread-making, framed by a verse from the Our Father, expresses quite consistently the everyday “propaganda” content of Slovak statehood: diligence, and faith in divine providence. Otherwise, however, this is a sophisticated, modernist-conceived “production film” that follows the process of bread production, from the harvest, through its processing into flour in the modern Nupod mill near Trnava, to its journey to the Slovak table.

biography

Paľo Bielik (1910–1983)
The most successful embodiment of Janosik to this day, also a founding figure of Slovak film directing activities – the author of Wolves’ Lairs and Captain Dabac decided to pursue a career as a director in 1942, after a few years of acting at the National Theatre. In Nástup, he made approximately a dozen documentaries, some of which already bear his dashing “boyish” writing style.