The Bread of Those Early Years

Synopsis

This masterful early work describes one day in the life of Walter Fendrich, a young washing machine repairman. Wry, ironic, yet intensely felt, it is an enchanting love story set amid the spiritual wreckage and growing materialism of postwar Germany. Torn by insecurity and cynicism, Fendrich is obsessed with hunger, "with the wolf living inside my stomach." The water and wartime shortages haunt him at an insatiable craving for bread, a bottomless desperation for security and gratification of basic needs..