Sugar Bread and Whip

Sugar Bread and Whip
Directed byMarran Gosov
Written byVít Olmer
Marran Gosov
Produced byRob Houwer
StarringHelga Anders
Roger Fritz
Harald Leipnitz
CinematographyWerner Kurz
Edited byGisela Haller
Music byHans Posegga
Production
company
Rob Houwer Productions
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
  • 21 August 1968 (1968-08-21)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Sugar Bread and Whip (German: Zuckerbrot und Peitsche) is a 1968 West German crime drama film directed by Marran Gosov and starring Helga Anders, Roger Fritz and Harald Leipnitz.[1] It was shot on location around Munich.[2] The title is a German-language expression similar to the English-language carrot and stick metaphor.

Synopsis

A male model is tired of his constant posing with luxury goods that he cannot himself afford and decides to commit a bank robbery. Things are complicated by his relationship with the married Helga.

Cast

  • Helga Anders as Helga Arnold
  • Roger Fritz as Roger
  • Harald Leipnitz as Robert Arnold
  • Jürgen Jung as Jörg
  • Helmut Hanke as Helmut
  • Dieter Augustin as Augustin
  • Gudrun Vöge as Gudrun
  • Monika Lundi as Franziska
  • Walter Gnilka as Juwelier Nicolodi Katz
  • Nico Vogler as Fotograf
  • Hans Wengefeld as Polizist
  • Werner Enke as Toter Verkäufer
  • Jürgen Draeger as Regisseur
  • Günter Becker as Inspektor

References

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Gerhardt, Christina & Abel, Marco. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. Camden House, 2019.