Mother Krausen Goes to Heaven

Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück, feature film, 1929

DIRECTED BY: Piel Jutzi

Mother Krausen Goes to Heaven

CAST:
Alexandra Schmitt (mama Krausen),
Ilse Trautschold (Erna),
Holmes Zimmermann (Paul),
Friedrich Gnass (Max),
Gerhard Bienert

SCRIPT:
Jan Fethke,
Willy Döll,
Richard Pfeiffer

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Piel Jutzi

Synopsis:
This is a story about a working family’s hard life in Berlin during the 1920s. Mother Krausen earns her money by delivering newspapers, her son Paul is unemployed and her daughter Erna dates Max, a member of the Communists. They all live in an apartment together with a young couple and their child. One evening in a bar Paul spends all of his mother’s money and his friend convinces him to go to a local pawnshop…

b/w, silent, 96 minuta