Overview
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.
Crew
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Brigitte Mira
Emma Küsters
Ingrid Caven
Corinna
Margit Carstensen
Frau Thälmann
Karlheinz Böhm
Karl Tillmann
Irm Hermann
Helene
Gottfried John
Jörg Niemeyer
Kurt Raab
Barkeeper Gustav
Peter Kern
Nachtklubbesitzer
Armin Meier
Ernst
Matthias Fuchs
Horst Knab
Gustav Holzapfel
Herr Holzapfel
Lilo Pempeit
Sekretärin
Peter Chatel
Photograph
Peter Bollag
Photograph
Volker Spengler
Photograph
Vitus Zeplichal
Reporter
Y Sa Lo
Terroristin
Adrian Hoven
Redacteur - in - chief Linke (uncredited)
Hannes Kaetner
Security Man (uncredited)
Eva Mattes
Sekretärin (uncredited)
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Keywords
suicideparent child relationshipwidowexploitationanarchistfrankfurt am main, germanydeath of fatherhostage-takingsingerworking classclass differencesfree willhostage situationlabordistortionmedia manipulationmass mediacommunismsensationalismlayoffs
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Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026