The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
35 audience votes
Key crew
- Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
- Rainer Werner FassbinderWriter
- Kurt RaabWriter
- Peer RabenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Brigitte MiraEmma Küsters
- Ingrid CavenCorinna
- Margit CarstensenFrau Thälmann
- Karlheinz BöhmKarl Tillmann
- Irm HermannHelene
- Gottfried JohnJörg Niemeyer
- Kurt RaabBarkeeper Gustav
- Peter KernNachtklubbesitzer
- Armin MeierErnst
- Matthias FuchsHorst Knab
- Gustav HolzapfelHerr Holzapfel
- Lilo PempeitSekretärin
Stills
Themes
suicideparent child relationshipwidowexploitationanarchistfrankfurt am main, germanydeath of fatherhostage-takingsingerworking classclass differencesfree will