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About
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
Music
Studio
Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren
Original Title
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
Original Language
German
Keywords
suicide
parent child relationship
exploitation
widow
anarchist
frankfurt am main, germany
hostage-taking
death of father
singer
working class
class differences
free will
hostage situation
labor
distortion
media manipulation
mass media
communism
sensationalism
layoffs
west germany
communication
daughter–in–law
leftist radicalism
media & politics
left politics
german family
tabloid journalism
narrative
magazine reporter
photojournalist
lack of communication
murder-suicide
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Cast
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Brigitte Mira
Emma Küsters
I
Ingrid Caven
Corinna
M
Margit Carstensen
Frau Thälmann
K
Karlheinz Böhm
Karl Tillmann
I
Irm Hermann
Helene
G
Gottfried John
Jörg Niemeyer
K
Kurt Raab
Barkeeper Gustav
P
Peter Kern
Nachtklubbesitzer
A
Armin Meier
Ernst
M
Matthias Fuchs
Horst Knab
L
Lilo Pempeit
Sekretärin
P
Peter Chatel
Photograph
P
Peter Bollag
Photograph
V
Volker Spengler
Photograph
V
Vitus Zeplichal
Reporter
Y
Y Sa Lo
Terroristin
A
Adrian Hoven
Redacteur - in - chief Linke (uncredited)
H
Hannes Kaetner
Security Man (uncredited)
E
Eva Mattes
Sekretärin (uncredited)
