Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975)

Original title

Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel

Directed by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

2h

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A working class woman becomes a media sensation after her husband commits a violent act. She tries to navigate the competing agendas of journalists and political groups who offer to help her.

satiricalmelodramaticdarkly comicpoliticalbriskemotionally intenseabsurd

What happens

Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (German: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel) is a 1975 German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm and Margit Carstensen. The film was shot over 20 days between February and March 1975 in Frankfurt am Main. The film drew on both Sirk-style melodramas and Weimar era workers' films to tell a political coming of age story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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