| Brief Description: | A major Fassbinder film. Mother Kusters finds herself suddenly
widowed. Her husband was a factory worker who one day goes berserk,
killing the boss' son and throwing himself into the machinery. Her
daughter, a would-be chanteuse, moves in with a muckraking journalist
to further her career. Soon the dead man's life is distorted
throughout pages of a cheap tabloid. Fassbinder paints a world where
the honest and the good fall prey to a system of corrupt media and
politics, a world where only small kindnesses carry relief to
overwhelming suffering. German with English subtitles. |
