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Jan 2, 1976 · With Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm. Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise.
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- Drama
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1976-01-02
Plot. Emma Küsters (Mira), a working-class woman, lives in Frankfurt with her son and daughter-in-law. While she is doing outreach work assembling electric plugs, Frau Küsters learns that her husband Hermann (a tire -factory worker for twenty years) has killed his supervisor or his supervisor's son and then committed suicide.
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In summary, Fassbinder's Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven engages key hallmarks of Sirk's melodramas, such as his use of sound, mirrors and framings, each of which would subsequently become signature signs in their own right of Fassbinder's oeuvre, but it shifts them to focus decidedly and solely on the situation of the working class in 1970s ...
- Christina Gerhardt
- 2017
Mrs. Kusters's husband is a frustrated factory worker who goes over the edge and kills the factory owner's son and himself. Left alone, she learns that everyone is using her husband's death to further their own needs, including her daughter, who uses the publicity to enhance her singing career.
Synopsis When her husband kills himself after going on a killing spree at the factory where he worked, Emma "Mother" Küsters (Brigitte Mira) finds herself the sudden object of a media frenzy....
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- Margit Carstensen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Drama
Apr 22, 2005 · Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven. by Dave Kehr April 22, 2005. Superior 1975 Fassbinder film, with the wonderful Brigitte Mira ( Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) as a hausfrau whose husband goes...
Apr 2, 2013 · My husband and I saw Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as part of a Fassbinder retrospective at the Pacific Film Archive in the 1990s. It was one of our favorite movies at the time, so of course I was curious to see how I’d feel about the movie now, in a different context and a different century.
