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Bulgarian-born Slatan Dudow emigrated to Germany in 1922 and began working
in theater, becoming assistant to Fritz Lang on Metropolis.
Dudow's first film was an adaptation of Brecht's play
Die Massnahme/ The Decision and led to a collaboration with Brecht,
Kuhle Wampe/ To Whom Does the World Belong (1932).
Expelled from Germany in 1933 as a communist, he moved to France, where he
made the short Seifenblasen (1934),
and then to Switzerland, where he wrote a number of plays.
He returned to Germany at the end of World War II, but to communist East Germany, where during the era of "social realism" he directed:
Our Daily Bread (1949),
The Benthin Family (1950),
Frauenschicksale (1952),
Staerker als die Nacht (1954),
The Captain from Cologne (1956), adapted from Carl Zuckmayer's play "Der Hauptmann von Koepenick",
and
Love's Confusion (1959), from Shakespeare.
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