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Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven () 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's melodramas and Weimar era workers' films to tell a political coming of age story.
Synopsis.
Emma Küsters (Mira), a working-class woman, lives in
Knab
- Kurt Raab as Gustav
Bibliography.
- Braad Thomsen, Christian, "Fassbinder: Life and Work of a Provocative Genius", University of Minnesota Press, 2004,
- Gerhardt, Christina, "Fassbinder's Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven in a Genealogy of the Workers' Films," Film Criticism 41.1 (February-March 2017).
External links.
- Review of the Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven DVD at the World Socialist Web Site