---
title: 'Mother Küsters'' Trip to Heaven (1975)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder'
released: '1975-07-07'
runtime_minutes: 120
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mother-kusters-trip-to-heaven-1975'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073424/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975)

1975 · 120 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel

## Synopsis

Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- **Screenplay:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder), [Kurt Raab](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-raab)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Peer Raben](https://cinepixo.com/people/peer-raben)
- **Director of Photography:** [Michael Ballhaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-ballhaus)
- **Editor:** [Thea Eymèsz](https://cinepixo.com/people/thea-eymesz)

## Cast

- [Y Sa Lo](https://cinepixo.com/people/y-sa-lo)
- [Wolfgang Hess](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-hess)
- [Liselotte Eder](https://cinepixo.com/people/liselotte-eder)
- [Volker Spengler](https://cinepixo.com/people/volker-spengler)
- [Gottfried John](https://cinepixo.com/people/gottfried-john)
- [Irm Hermann](https://cinepixo.com/people/irm-hermann)
- [Eva Mattes](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-mattes)
- [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- [Margit Carstensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/margit-carstensen)
- [Karlheinz Böhm](https://cinepixo.com/people/karlheinz-bohm)
- [Ingrid Caven](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingrid-caven)
- [Armin Meier](https://cinepixo.com/people/armin-meier)
- [Matthias Fuchs](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthias-fuchs)
- [Peter Chatel](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-chatel)
- [Kurt Raab](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-raab)

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