Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Drama

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

User Score34 votes

76%7.6/10

Release1975→

Runtime1H 48M

LanguageGerman

StatusReleased

Synopsis

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.

Principal Cast8

Brigitte Mira

Emma Küsters

Ingrid Caven

Corinna

Margit Carstensen

Frau Thälmann

Karlheinz Böhm

Karl Tillmann

Irm Hermann

Helene

Gottfried John

Jörg Niemeyer

Kurt Raab

Barkeeper Gustav

Peter Kern

Nachtklubbesitzer

Full Cast & Crew (30)

Media9

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Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Keywords

suicideparent child relationshipwidowexploitationanarchistfrankfurt am main, germanydeath of fatherhostage-takingsingerworking classclass differencesfree willhostage situationlabordistortionmedia manipulationmass mediacommunismsensationalismlayoffswest germanycommunicationdaughter–in–lawleftist radicalismmedia & politicsleft politicsgerman familytabloid journalismnarrativemagazine reporterphotojournalistlack of communicationmurder-suicidefar-leftpiece work