Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

7.7 / 10 1975 1h 48mNR German
Drama

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

BM

Brigitte Mira

Emma Küsters

Lead
Ingrid Caven

Ingrid Caven

Corinna

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen

Frau Thälmann

Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

Karl Tillmann

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Helene

Gottfried John

Gottfried John

Jörg Niemeyer

Kurt Raab

Kurt Raab

Barkeeper Gustav

Peter Kern

Peter Kern

Nachtklubbesitzer

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker