MOTHER KRAUSE'S JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS (MUTTER KRAUSENS FAHRT INS GLÜCK)

Live musical accompaniment by Sascha Jacobsen and the Musical Art Quintet

Showings

Castro Theatre Fri, Jun 1, 2018 6:30 PM
$24 general / $22 member
No Service Fees!
Film Info
Director:Piel Jutzi
Cast:Alexandra Schmidt
Holmes Zimmermann
Ilse Trautschold
Year:1929
Country:Germany
Total Run Time:133 min.

Description

Mother Krause shares a tenement apartment in Berlin’s Wedding district with her grown children, a shady lodger, his prostitute lover, and her child. She ekes out a living by selling newspapers, but when son Paul drinks up her earnings, desperation sets in. This Weimar masterpiece inspired R.W. Fassbinder’s 1975 Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel.

Restoration by the Munich Film Museum who reconstructed the film combining materials from the only remaining nitrate prints. The restoration has the original intertitles written in a Berliner dialect.


Special support provided by the Zellerbach Family Foundation


Copresented by Center for the Art of Translation and Berlin & Beyond, Goethe-Institut