The Valais - Bread and Wine

The beautiful canton of Valais in the Swiss Alps is the setting for this closeup look at traditional farm and village life through all four seasons.

Filmed 1957-59; produced in 1970. Transfer is from a faded print.

Ernest Kleinberg (1910-1980) was born in Breslau, Germany. He grew up in Vienna, where he became a photographer for American news agencies and Life magazine. In March 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo for photographing Hitler's march into Vienna. Released six weeks later thanks to pressure from American friends, he escaped to New York where he resumed photography and rescued his entire family from Nazi Austria. In the early 1950s he became a self-taught film producer. He subsequently completed more than 25 documentary movies.

Other films by Ernest Kleinberg:    / @robertfkleinberg  

Europe as it was

:

Belgium:    • Belgium, Where the Past Meets the Present  
Bruges:    • Bruges, A Belgian Town  
Carcasonne:    • Carcassonne,  A French Fortress  
Crossroads Europe:    • Crossroads Europe  
Lausanne:    • Impressions of Lausanne  
The Netherlands:    • The Netherlands: Struggle for Land  
Nördlingen:    • German Farm Town  
Valais:    • The Valais - Bread and Wine  

Vernazza:    • The Adventures of Giorgio (Vernazza, Italy)