To get one over on her husband, molecular biologist Leo Kaminski, Lydia Kaminski-Smith sets about cultivating bacteria that decompose waste and thus solve the garbage problem. Some insatiable microbes turn paper into sugar. Once released, nothing is safe from them - not books, letters or files. Everything turns to sugar. The sweet catastrophe progresses inexorably...
Practical Effects
Gooey bacterial effects that age like fine wine.
Writing
Divorce by mad science: petty, inspired, delicious.
Director
Rainer Erler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
West German TV-movie culture produced wildly specific disaster premises; this aired on ARD in 1989.
Bruce Spence—yes, THAT Bruce Spence, the Gyro Captain from Mad Max 2—plays the Australian colleague who spots the danger first.
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