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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Drama
Release Date: 1975, July 7
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Countries: Germany
Production: Tango Film, Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren, Filmverlag der Autoren
Cast: Gottfried John, Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm Hermann, Kurt Raab, Peter Kern, Vitus Zeplichal, Brigitte Mira, Volker Spengler, Matthias Fuchs

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.

Keywords:

suicide communism working class class differences parent child relationship singer death of father communication widow exploitation murder-suicide hostage situation narrative daughter–in–law mass media free will media manipulation west germany frankfurt am main, germany hostage-taking anarchist tabloid journalism labor german family photojournalist distortion left politics leftist radicalism sensationalism media & politics lack of communication layoffs magazine reporter far-left piece work