Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven
| Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | |
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| Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Written by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder Kurt Raab Heinrich Zille |
| Starring | Brigitte Mira Ingrid Caven Karlheinz Böhm Margit Carstensen Armin Meier Irm Hermann |
| Cinematography | Michael Ballhaus |
| Edited by | Thea Eymesz |
| Music by | Peer Raben |
| Distributed by | Tango Film |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (German: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel) is a 1975 German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm and Margit Carstensen. The film was shot over 20 days between February and March 1975 in Frankfurt am Main. The film drew on both Sirk-style melodramas and Weimar era workers' films to tell a political coming of age story.