{"id":17765,"date":"2025-08-22T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:50:34","slug":"mother-kusters-goes-to-heaven-1975-rainer-fassbinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17765","title":{"rendered":"Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975, Rainer Fassbinder)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother K receives a bit of bad news: her husband went to work and murderer-suicided his boss. She gathers the family (son Ernst and his wife Irm Hermann, dancer daughter Corinna), and their situation attracts reporter Jorg and a communist couple. Everyone involved exploits the tragedy in their own way, also a sharp movie about political fractures within families.<\/p>\n

L-R: Mother K, son, Irm, bearer of bad news<\/em>
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Communists:<\/em>
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Mom is the lead from Fear Eats the Soul<\/a><\/em> in another big role. Ernst (star of Fear of Fear<\/em> the same year) and wife Irm Hermann get the hell out of there and return pregnant. Mom’s daughter Ingrid Caven (a Year with 13 Moons<\/em> star and a Suspiria Remake<\/a><\/em> teacher) shacks up with the reporter (the large-faced star of Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day<\/em>) and finds a job in town playing off her family’s infamy. After the daughter leaves, mom calls up communists Peeping Tom<\/a> and Petra von Kant<\/a>, who were the last people to be nice to her, but she wants real action while they say things like “it’s a slow process \/ we can’t work miracles \/ we won’t forget you.” Falling in with increasingly radical groups, Mother K meets anarchist Horst (Matthias Fuchs of Decoder<\/em>) whose plan is to bring guns to the newspaper and demand a retraction of the reporter’s sensationalist article. We get a couple of possible ways out of this: a bloody shootout via intertitle, then a happy fantasy where Mother K survives, is abandoned by everyone again, and meets a nice lonely man.<\/p>\n

dancer, reporter:<\/em>
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Mother K receives a bit of bad news: her husband went to work and murderer-suicided his boss. She gathers the family (son Ernst and his wife Irm Hermann, dancer daughter Corinna), and their situation attracts reporter Jorg and a communist couple. Everyone involved exploits the tragedy in their own way, also a sharp movie about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,336,122,1609,607],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-communism","tag-germany","tag-rainer-fassbinder","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17805,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions\/17805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}