Sugar - A really sweet disaster
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| Original title | Sugar - A really sweet disaster |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Rainer Erler |
| script | Rainer Erler |
| production | Rainer Erler |
| music | Eugene Thomass |
| camera | Simon Akkermann |
| cut | Ingrid Broszat |
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Sugar - A Really Sweet Catastrophe is a German television film by Rainer Erler from 1989. The film shows the possible effects of the activities of genetically modified microorganisms in an entertaining way.
action
The marriage of the researcher couple Kaminski is characterized by the fact that one partner wants to be one step ahead of the other in research. In search of recycling bacteria that should make the growing mountains of rubbish disappear, Lydia Kaminski-Smith uses genetic manipulation to create voracious microbes that can metabolize waste paper and cotton into sugar .
In a letter to her husband, she boasts of her new acquisition. After a while, the letter and other paper objects turn to sugar in his study. Horrified, Leo Kaminski races to a lending library to which he has returned an infected book. Here, however, every shelf has already been turned into sugar, and other books that have been infected have been loaned out there.
It turns out that Lydia Kaminski-Smith gave her dog access to her laboratory, which presumably allowed the bacteria to become a nuisance . Other bacteria have also escaped, causing Leo Kaminski's car to rust completely in a few minutes after talking to his wife. He succinctly comments on the departure of an airplane with an infected document by saying that the paperless “ digital age ” has finally begun.
The bacteria turn the valuable holdings of the national libraries and paper money into sugar, as do exercise books, files, protocols and toilet paper. Postmen must deliver telegrams and letters orally. When the designated "Oskar Flobell" award winner Leo Kaminski recognized the consequences of his research, he passed away spectacularly, also worn down by the hunt by the police. The pastor reads his funeral address from stone tablets.
Others
Rainer Erler also processed his script into a novel , which was first published in 1989 under the title Sugar. The novel of a sweet catastrophe was published by Herbig-Verlag .
literature
- Rainer Erler : Sugar. Novel of a sweet disaster . Unabridged edition. Goldmann, Munich 1991, 238 pages, ISBN 3-442-09938-2