The General Line of Our Daily Bread

The text examines the attitude towards the industrialisation of agriculture in Old and New/ The General Line (Staroe i novoe / General’naja linija, Sergei Eisenstein, 1929) and Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005). It also underlines the moralizing tone in some of the more recent films on contemporary agriculture, which prevents them from being truly emancipating.

The integral version of this article can be found in the printed KINO!