Our Daily Bread (2005 film)
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Initial DVD release October 30, 2007 (Greece) | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 28, 2005 (2005-11-28) (Amsterdam InternationalDocumentary Film Festival)April 21, 2006 (2006-04-21) (Austria)January 18, 2007 (2007-01-18) (Germany) Cast Claus Hansen Petz (Himself), Arkadiusz Rydellek (Himself), Tibor Korom (Himself), András Szarvas (Himself)Screenplay Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer Similar movies We Feed the World (2005) |
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Our Daily Bread (German: Unser täglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film directed, co-produced, and with cinematography by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The script was co-written by Wolfgang Widerhofer and Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
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- Foods transformations
- Places and companies
- Reception
- Awards
- References

The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on large scales. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.

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Foods transformations

Different processes in agriculture and food processing plants are shown in the film. Since scenes are mixed, food transformations are listed below with no particular order.

Places and companies

The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are provided on the official site in the booklet pdf. They are listed below for convenience and to help further investigation:

Reception
Our Daily Bread has a 94% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critical consensus stated as, "A matter-of-fact, nearly wordless documentary, Our Daily Bread's spare presentation of slaughterhouses and human consumption serves up food for thought." It also has an 86/100 on Metacritic, and received two votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the world's greatest films.
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References
Our Daily Bread (2005 film) WikipediaOur Daily Bread (2005 film) IMDb Our Daily Bread (2005 film) themoviedb.org