Carrot and Stick (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Carrot and Stick |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marran Gosov |
| script | Marran Gosov |
| production | Rob Houwer |
| music | Hans Posegga |
| camera | Werner Kurz |
| cut | Gisela Haller |
| occupation | |
and as guests: Werner Enke and Jürgen Draeger | |
The carrot and stick is a gangster film with satirical swipes by Marran Gosov from 1968 with Helga Anders and Roger Fritz in the leading roles.
action
Roger is a male model who is in demand as a dressman, especially as an advertising figure in the cigarette industry. But behind the facade of the self-loving handsome boy, whose activities only promise pure routine, lurks a criminal soul, a ruthless bastard who walks over corpses. Because Roger always wants to give his life a kick and that's why he robs banks and jewelry stores in Munich and is anything but squeamish in his approach. If someone does not follow his instructions: he will be shot. If someone objects during the attack: he will be shot. If someone picks up or moves at the wrong moment: they'll be shot. If Roger is to be betrayed by a fence: he will be shot.
During one of his raids he runs into the pretty Helga and also loses his mouth organ . Helga takes this for herself. A day later, they both meet again in a fashion store. Roger knows that Helga has his lost oral organ and is now playing around with another almost casually in her presence, as if he wanted her to know who she was dealing with. If Helga is initially not particularly impressed by Roger, the gangster immediately falls in love with the witness of his crimes. Finally Helga begins to be more and more fascinated by Roger's wild, unbridled and completely uninhibited lifestyle, this outlaw existence. After all, she wants to be part of this life, as she is trapped in a run-of-the-mill marriage with the professionally busy gallery owner Robert. According to her testimony at the police station after the attack on the Nicolidi jewelry store, he didn't even find the time to pick her up from there and instead suggested that she take a taxi. Robert cannot offer his Helga anywhere near the same thrill as Roger. Robert also feels nothing but monotony in his marriage to Helga and is therefore not particularly appalled when he learns that his wife is apparently cheating on him with a downright scoundrel.
Meanwhile, Helga practically encourages her new lover to continue to lead the life of a criminal, because this makes her hot and spices her life. When she asks Roger, who is thinking of stopping, “How long do you want to go on like this?” He replies succinctly “Until they get me.” Soon Roger gets more problems than he'd like. He gets into a wild shootout with two drug dealer brothers who have been stalking him for some time , whose third brother he had once shot, whereupon the two surviving brothers want to pump him full of lead. Ultimately, Roger thinks it should be worth robbing a private view of Roberts, because there are tons of financially cramped art lovers walking around, who should be a sheer pleasure to except. The escalation screw is tightened powerfully, and it comes as it has to come: finally one of his raids goes completely wrong, and gangster Roger is shot by another gangster.
Production notes
The Carrot and the Stick premiered on August 21, 1968. The film is clearly influenced by the immediately preceding Hollywood flick Bonnie and Clyde .
Monika Lundi made her film debut here.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films found: "Formally interesting film that does not claim to be realistic, but remains consciously in the cinema reality."
On cinema.online it was said that this was a “fashionable, morally free trip to the 60s”
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carrot and Stick. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Carrot and Stick on cinema.de
Web links
- Carrot and stick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carrot and stick at filmportal.de