Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

1975 · 108 min · DE · 7.7 (35 votes)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Starring Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John · Music Peer Raben
Drama

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.

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A stark, unflinching look at how tragedy exposes societal fractures. It's a somber, critical examination of media sensationalism and the crushing weight of working-class existence, leaving a lingering sense of unease.

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