# Sinful and Sweet > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sinful_and_Sweet > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sinful_and_Sweet.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinful_and_Sweet > Source revision: 1341600561 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1929 film by Karel Lamač Sinful and Sweet Directed by Carl Lamac Written by Henry Koster Hans Wilhelm Produced by Victor Skutezky Starring Anny Ondra Toni Tetzlaff Paul Rehkopf Cinematography Otto Heller Production company Holm Film Distributed by Süd-Film Release date 1 May 1929 (1929-05-01) Country Germany Languages Silent German intertitles ***Sinful and Sweet*** (German: ***Sündig und süß***) is a 1929 German [silent](/source/Silent_film) [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Carl Lamac](/source/Carl_Lamac) and starring [Anny Ondra](/source/Anny_Ondra), [Toni Tetzlaff](/source/Toni_Tetzlaff), and [Paul Rehkopf](/source/Paul_Rehkopf).[1] The film's sets were designed by [Heinrich Richter](/source/Heinrich_Richter). ## Plot As described in a film magazine,[2] Musette is a Parisian [artist's model](/source/Model_(art)) who applies to a rich American artist seeking a subject. She has already met him and is brought to his house by his automobile. he becomes interested in her but, when he later goes to call on her, finds a baby of a neighbor in her bed. Depressed by what he believes is continental immorality, he gives her the American high hat. That evening he finds her at a hall where she has had a trifle too much champagne. When he accuses her of loose living, she considers committing suicide. An old professor, feeling sorry for her, takes Musette home with him. There she shocks the professor when she drinks, without knowing what it is, a bottle containing his newly discovered youth-bringing formula. The American, having seen the young woman disappear, gets the baby and brings it to the professor's apartment. The young woman is finally able to explain to the artist that the child is not hers. The professor later returns to his apartment and, finding the baby instead of the young woman, believes his serum has been a tremendous success. ## Cast - [Anny Ondra](/source/Anny_Ondra) as Musette, ein Pariser Modell - [Toni Tetzlaff](/source/Toni_Tetzlaff) as Frau Griche - [Paul Rehkopf](/source/Paul_Rehkopf) as Herr Griche - [Julius Falkenstein](/source/Julius_Falkenstein) as Kurzsichtier Nachbar Musettes - [Eugen Rex](/source/Eugen_Rex) as Meunier - Bildhauer - [Hans Junkermann](/source/Hans_Junkermann_(actor)) as Mr. de Malcomte - Kunstliebhaber - [André Roanne](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Roanne) as Joe Willings - reicher Mann aus den USA - [Teddy Bill](/source/Teddy_Bill) as Gaston - Willings' Freund - [Anielka Elter](/source/Anielka_Elter) as Helen - Willings' Freundin - [Adolphe Engers](/source/Adolphe_Engers) as Albert - Willings' Diener - [Hermann Picha](/source/Hermann_Picha) as Prof. Voronoffsky - Verjüngungsdoktor - [Artur Hofer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artur_Hofer&action=edit&redlink=1) as Ein Ausländer - [Paul Morgan](/source/Paul_Morgan_(actor)) as Ein Ausländer ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bock & Bergfelder p. 258 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["German-Made Pictures: *Sinful and Sweet*"](https://archive.org/details/variety96-1929-09/page/n176/mode/1up). *[Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine))*. **96** (10). New York City: Variety, Inc.: 25 18 September 1929. Retrieved 10 January 2026. ## Bibliography - Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. Berghahn Books, 2009. ## External links - [*Sinful and Sweet*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020474/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Karel Lamač Gilly in Prague for the First Time (1920) White Paradise (1924) Karel Havlíček Borovský (1925) The Lantern (1925) The Countess from Podskalí (1926) Never the Twain (1926) Eve's Daughters (1928) Suzy Saxophone (1928) The First Kiss (1928) The Girl with the Whip (1929) Sin of a Beautiful Woman (1929) Sinful and Sweet (1929) The Caviar Princess (1930) Fairground People (1930) Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930) Him and His Sister (1931) The Squeaker (1931) Business Under Distress (1931) Die Fledermaus (1931) The Cruel Mistress (1932) The Undertaker (1932) A Night in Paradise (1932) Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932) Kiki (1932) Should We Wed Them? (1932) Wehe, wenn er losgelassen (1932) Mamsell Nitouche (1932) The Ringer (1932) The Love Hotel (1933) Daughter of the Regiment (1933) Little Dorrit (1934) Nezlobte dědečka (1934) The Switched Bride (1934) The Brenken Case (1934) Polish Blood (1934) Frasquita (1934) I Love All the Women (1935) Knockout (1935) The Young Count (1935) The White Horse Inn (1935) The Bashful Casanova (1936) The Postman from Longjumeau (1936) Where the Lark Sings (1936) Florentine (1937) A Girl from the Chorus (1937) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) Cause for Divorce (1937) The Vagabonds (1937) The Lantern (1938) Ducháček Will Fix It (1938) Place de la Concorde (1939) Schweik's New Adventures (1943) They Met in the Dark (1943) It Happened One Sunday (1944) One Night at the Tabarin (1947) The Thief of Bagdad (1952) This article related to a German silent comedy film of the 1920s is a stub. 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