Mother Kusters’ Trip to
Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
Frau Kusters (Brigitte Mira) is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary
afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters
wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks
otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the
personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing
suicide.
