Sugar flavor
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sugar flavor |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| script | Ulrike Schwarzenberger |
| production | Klaus Lintschinger |
| music |
Otmar Binder Arthur Lauber |
| camera | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
| occupation | |
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Zuckeroma is an Austrian film comedy from 2004 with the leading actress Bibiane Zeller .
action
The film begins with Melanie Seeberg visiting her parents' house because it is her mother's birthday. Melanie also finds her fatally ill father, who is a chain smoker . But the mother worries very little and gives Melanie no information about the father's condition. He dies the same evening. The housekeeper Gusti hadn't invited the mother to the funeral either. The mother now decides that she would rather "go on it" than let her daughter Melanie help her. A little later, when the Seeberg family comes to visit their grandmother, they only find Gusti, who announces that the grandmother is moving into a "senior citizens' residence" and has sold the family home behind her daughter's back. Grandma only leaves two gold coins for her grandchildren Sebastian and Stella.
Ten years later, the Seeberg family is enjoying their peaceful life in Vienna. Anton Seeberg works as a freelance software designer, his wife Melanie takes care of the household, son Sebastian is a student and daughter Stella still goes to school. When Melanie visits her father's grave, she puts a Koum Kouat orange, which grows in Corfu , on his grave. An old man, whose son is buried nearby, keeps her company. Anton is almost finished with his software concept for a hospital in Singapore and has decided to take a vacation before his upcoming stay in Singapore in Corfu (where her father always wanted to go, but his mother did not succeed). In the retirement home, the grandma harassed the staff with a migrant background and also behaved very strangely towards her family.
In Trieste , from where the family wanted to board a ferry to Corfu, Melanie receives a call that her grandma has had a stroke , which is why they are all returning to Vienna. When visiting the hospital, it appears that Grandma is terminally ill. The Seebergs decide to take their grandma in with them, also because the doctor says that this would extend her life. When grandma arrives at the house, she fakes memory problems, swapping people and always asking for Gusti and the father. Then she complains about her room again, and Melanie prepares a diet menu for her (due to her diabetes ), which she empties into the drain and instead enjoys jam. She also calls the foreign domestic help Božena “Tschuschin”. Grandma also wants to move into Stella's room because she is "so alone" in her room. Stella does not agree with this, which Grandma portrays Stella as ugly. Stella also brings a little dog into the house that she wished for. Grandma doesn't like this at all and calls him mutt.
Anton is overjoyed when he's finished with the computer program and has set a date for the presentation in Singapore. He decides to take Melanie with him, but they have to put in a good word to Grandma for her to agree. While Anton and Melanie still have to get travel accessories, Grandma changes and destroys the happy situation of her relatives. In Sebastian's room she finds a sex booklet and takes it to Anton's office, where she does the worst. At first she is delighted with the screen saver, but then presses the keyboard and floppy disks like crazy and confirms the (English) question on the screen whether the hard disk should be erased with "yes". Then she pisses off the foreign domestic help Božena. After that, Anton is less appalled by Sebastian's sex book than by his deleted PC data, which is why he is devastated and decides to break up with Melanie and travel to his parents in Mallorca . Melanie now visits the father's grave again, where she talks to the deceased. She meets the old man again. This tells Melanie about his homosexual son, who fled because of his domineering wife and died after a while (presumably of AIDS ). As a result, his wife was killed “purely by chance” in a hiking accident.
The family now has visions of how to murder the obnoxious grandmother: Stella with poisoned compote , Sebastian with a frozen salmon (which he hits her on the head), and Anton wants to throw her in front of a moving car. But these are just delusions. Family life is now clouded like never before. Anton is gone, Sebastian keeps disappearing and Stella no longer speaks. However, Melanie, inspired by the experience at the cemetery, has developed a method of how she wants to get rid of the hated grandma. She orders a large, sweet and fat cake from the confectioner for 200 euros. The confectioner provides the comment “ the cake is frisst kana ”. Melanie briefly shows grandma the cake and leaves her alone with it. Because Melanie's grandmother had only had low-sugar food for days and all the sweet things in the house were thrown away, she couldn't resist the temptation and literally devoured the cake. She eventually dies from a sugar overdose. The Seebergs are now facing a new beginning. They are waiting for the ferry in Trieste so that they can catch up on their Corfu vacation.
criticism
"Turbulent (television) comedy about the indestructible mother-in-law cliché, which in this case threatens an ideal bourgeois world."
“The comedy about the coexistence of different generations under one roof turns out to be a bitter satire, which Xaver Schwarzenberger once again staged based on the script of his wife Ulli. Bibiana Zeller, who has worked with Schwarzenberger several times, shines in the role of malicious grandma. "
Web links
- Zuckeroma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zuckeroma in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Sugar aroma. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Zuckeroma , prisma.de