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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)

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Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots. Later, Mother is "adopted" by a Communist couple who wish to exploit her husband's "act of defiance" for their own purposes. Finally left alone, Mother Kusters decides to stop living off her husband's notoriety and turn into a human being again. Director Rainer

Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab

In Theaters: Dec 31, 1975 Wide

On DVD: May 20, 2003

Cast

Karlheinz B�hm
Mr. Thalmann
Margit Carstensen
Mrs. Thalmann
Ingrid Caven
Corinna Corinne
Peter Chatel
Photographer
Matthias Fuchs
Irm Hermann
Helene Kusters
Gottfried John
Niemeyer Man in nightcl...
Peter Kern
Nightclub manager
Y Sa Lo
Armin Meier
Ernst Kusters
Brigitte Mira
Mother Kusters
Lilo Pempeit
Volker Spengler
Kurt Raab
Vitus Zeplichal
Gustav Holzapfel

Critic Reviews for Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

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A witty, spare, beautifully performed political comedy.

July 25, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

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Fassbinder created another emotionally distancing, disturbing, yet always funny and fascinating picture.

September 18, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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The provocative filmmaker manages to show worker exploitation on the left while still hitting hard at the right.

May 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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As the tag line reads, this film was banned from the Berlin Film Festival in 1975, and I know exactly why. It's what you call a 'bleak comedy'. But the emotion that it carries throughout the whole movie is disturbing, yet riveting. I first watched this movie not knowing any synopsis of it at all and when it was over,

February 7, 2011

Sean Henkel

Ach ja, der Rainer Werner konnte schon Filme machen. Interessant erz�hlt, gut gespielt und eigentlich so ziemlich gegen Alles und Jeden hat Fassbinder auch mit diesen Film bewiesen, dass man ihn einfach in keine Schublade stecken kann. Besonders angetan war ich vom alternativen Ende, das eigentliche Ende ist zwar auch

July 31, 2010