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Holland Doc 24

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Presents

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Documentary classics

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Imagine, it's winter, you're old, you live in a for the greater part abandoned Russian village

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and for bread you're completely dependent on a freight train which brings once a week

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a carriage with food.

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And that carriage, which is unhooked at two and a half hours walking distance from the village

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has to be pushed to the village by yourself

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This bleak world, far from here and with a reality far away from ours

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is depicted by director Sergei Dvortsevoy in the documentary Bread Day

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Bread day, made in 1998, is a slow and still film, which immerses the viewer into the freezing cold

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and severe conditions of the frozen village.

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At the same time, it's a rather absurd film

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with cursing and mostly drunk elderly and their hard struggle for their daily bread.

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Among themselves, but also with the railway carriage which can hardly be pushed any further

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and with the shop assistant in the baker's shop who determines who will get bread and how much.

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[Man: Tomorrow I want a whole rucksack full.]

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[Woman: Why do you have to give me so much pain!]

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If there were a hell on earth, you'd instantly believe it would look like this.

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It's a village where time stands still and where only survival matters.

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We see the daily routine, the bleakness and the scarcity.

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Get to know a place where people only long for the next delivery of bread.

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Nominated in 1998 for the prestigious Joris Ivens Award.

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This is Bread Day...