Ein Bauer und seine Frau

The DEFA documentary Ein Bauer und seine Frau (A peasant and his wife) focuses on an elderly couple in a village in the Harz Mountains. Before collectivization, they were individual farmers. Today the wife works as a brigadier in the LPG pigsty, the husband, once chairman of the LPG, stays at home, his health no longer playing ball. The grandchildren from the city come to visit at the weekend. The grandparents hope that they will take an interest in their farm and the home they are so attached to. "Eduard Schreiber, who sees the documentary as a seismograph of reality, combines documentary images and words with lyrical, metaphorical shots. The camera lingers on annual rings of cut wood. Sometimes everyday occurrences take on a symbolic character of their own accord." (Elke Schieber)