SUGARBABY
(Zuckerbaby), 1984
"SUGARBABY may not shrink your waistline, but it is guaranteed to liquidise your heart."
- Elle Magazine
A film by Percy Adlon
Marianne Sägebrecht • Eisi Gulp
Manuela Denz, Toni Berger, Hans Stadlbauer
Screenplay by Percy Adlon
Produced by Eleonore Adlon
Director of Photography - Johanna Heer
Editor - Jean-Claude Piroué
Music by Dreieier
A pelemele Film production
Shot on 35mm Fujifilm in Munich, Aug - Sept, 1984
German, 86 minutes
Subtitle options: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
"She" is a big, not-so-young woman who works in a funeral parlor. "He" is the young subway driver whose voice over the loudspeaker hits her like a bolt of lightning one day as she is enduring her daily commute. Spurred by an irrational passion, she abandons her dreary responsibilities and sets out on a mission to find and seduce the man behind the voice. This is the quirky love story of a woman coming into her own, and the dumbfounded man who falls head-over-heels, and simply stops going home.
Premiered at the 1985 Berlin International Film Festival as the Forum’s “Surprise Film”
U.S. premiere: New York Film Festival, 1985
Ernst-Lubitsch Award for Marianne Sägebrecht
