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Sugarbaby (1985)
Director: Percy Adlon
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From Time Out Film Guide
A sweet romantic comedy, with chubby Sägebrecht playing a lonely undertaker's assistant who falls for a young knight on a shiny yellow subway train and stalks him in, one initially supposes, forlorn pursuit - the punchline being that her U-Bahn inamorato (Gulp) is married to a black-clad harpy and highly susceptible to a little old-fashioned seduction. Adlon paints working class Munich like Pabst on speed, in acid-drop colour and expressionistic camera angles - a kaleidoscopic visual gloss on the characters' repressed and unspoken emotions. He ponders on the feminist and fatness and the folly of cultural stereotypes in the most diverting and persuasive of ways, providing food for thought as well as a feast for the eye.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Percy Adlon
Producer: Eleonore Adlon
Cast: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Will Spindler full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 86 mins
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