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Movie poster: Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

1975 · 108 min Drama
7.6 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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Original Title Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
Year 1975
Country Germany
Genre Drama
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Runtime 108 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.6/10 (34 votes)

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This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.

Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.

For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.

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