Mother's Mask ( Mutters Maske )

Mother's Mask (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mutters Maske
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
137

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Christoph Schlingensief

Written By:
Mathias Colli
Christoph Schlingensief

Actors:
Brigitte Kausch ..... Mutter
Karl Friedrich Mews ..... Willy von Mühlenbeck
Helge Schneider ..... Martin von Mühlenbeck
Susanne Bredehöft ..... Els
Anna Fechter ..... Schwester Anna
Sergej Gleitmann ..... Der Himmel (as Volker Bertzky)
Dieter Lersch ..... Diener Julien
Udo Kier ..... Herr Seidler
Andreas Kunze ..... Pastor Kippling
Conny Jurkait ..... Marie
Regina Stiplosak
Anastasia Kudelka
Irmgard Freifau von Berswordt-Wallrabe ..... Tante Martha
Kornelia Fechter
Uli Hanisch

Synopsis:

Visconti meets "Dallas" in Schlingensief's official remake of Veit Harlan's JUD SÜSS (1940) and OPFERGANG (1944)! Schlingensief exposes his source material's dangerous proximity to kitsch and camp by reducing the genre conventions known from Harlan, Sirk, Fassbinder & Co to the level of a daily soap: set within a noble family from the German Ruhr, Schlingensief's story revolving about Willy von Mühlenbeck's tragic love to terminally ill neighbor girl Äls (Susanne Bredehöft) and the inheritance intrigues by his evil brother Martin von Mühlenbeck (Helge Schneider) creaks with melodramatic devices and self-conscious dialogues. Rather than being a mere spoof, MOTHER'S MASK is perhaps Schlingensief's purest black comedy. With Udo Kier as The Demonical Man From Child Protection Services! Soundtrack by Helge Schneider!

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