The Bread of Love

The Bread of Love

90 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 23, 1953

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

The Bread of Love

90 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 23, 1953

The Bread of Love
Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.
Producers Nordisk Tonefilm
Original title Kärlekens bröd
Directors Ingrid Wallin, Arne Mattsson
Writers Peder Sjögren, Volodja Semitjov

Cast

Folke Sundquist

as Prisoner

Sissi Kaiser

as Lunnaja

Georg Rydeberg

as Ledin

Nils Hallberg

as Tom

Erik Hell

as Bouncer

Lennart Lindberg

as Narrator

Yngve Nordwall

as Vicar

Dagny Lind

as Bouncer's Mother

Jan Boleslaw

as Soviet machine gunner

Mary Sandberg

as Soviet machine gunner's assistant