Rent Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven / Fear of Fear (1975)
3.8 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
"Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven" stars Brigitte Mira (Fear Eats the Soul) as a middle-aged housewife who, upon learning that her husband has died in an industrial accident, becomes the subject of intense press attention, which increases when it becomes clear that her husband was the engineer of his own fate. As her children react to the scandal in their own very different ways, she soon attracts the attention of a middle-class couple who are members of the Communist Party (Margit Carstensen and Karlheinz Bohm). As it becomes clear that the pair are interested in ideology and political campaigning, she soon finds herself courted by more radical members of the left-wing struggle. Based on a story by Asta Scheib, 'Fear of Fear' is a complex psychological portrait of a young mother, played by Fassbinder favourite Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kanf), plagued with feelings of acute anxiety and depression as she is left to spend her hours alone in the Cologne apartment she shares with her distant husband. Constantly berated by her cold and judgemental in-laws, she turns to Dr. Merck (Adrian Hoven) for sympathy. - Actors:
- Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John, Peter Kern, Kurt Raab, Gustav Holzapfel, Lilo Pempeit, Peter Chatel, Peter Bollag, Vitus Zeplichal, Volker Spengler, Y Sa Lo, Armin Meier, Matthias Fuchs, Adrian Hoven, Hannes Kaetner, Eva Mattes
- Directors:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producers:
- Peter Märthesheimer
- Writers:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Heinrich Zille, Asta Scheib
- Aka:
- Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel / Angst vor der Angst
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Germany
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/06/2022
- Run Time:
- 107 minutes
- Languages:
- German Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by critic Olaf Moller on Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
- New interviews with Renate Leiffer, assistant director on 'Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven' and 'Fear of Fear'
- New interview the writer Asta Scheib on 'Fear of Fear'
- Play It Again, Rainer! Fassbinder's Musical Obsessions, a new video essay by Margaret Deriaz on the use of music in Fassbinder's films
