The old question of whether film can really add anything to literature quickly leads to the Kranzstockerhof bread bakery. This is never really described in Robert Seethaler’s slim alpine fate novel “A Whole Life”. But one assumes that they must exist because Kranzstocker’s kind-hearted old mother-in-law, called Ahnl, loses consciousness while baking bread and falls forward into her fresh dough, where she suffocates.
“A whole life” in the cinema: Alpine destinies – culture
