Fresh
A witty, spare, beautifully performed political comedy.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975 · 1h 48m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director
- Brigitte Mira as Emma Küsters
- Ingrid Caven as Corinna
- Margit Carstensen as Frau Thälmann
- Karlheinz Böhm as Karl Tillmann
- Irm Hermann as Helene
- Gottfried John as Jörg Niemeyer
- Kurt Raab as Barkeeper Gustav
- Peter Kern as Nachtklubbesitzer
- Armin Meier as Ernst
- Matthias Fuchs as Horst Knab
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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No other director understands the strength of mediocre minds as does Fassbinder; when his films don't slip into derision, they can be ineffably moving, as this one is.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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