Mother's Mask (1988) Mutters Maske
Mother's Mask (1988)
DVDRip | MKV | 768x576 | x264 @ 2225 Kbps | 79 min | 1,35 Gb
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Genre: Comedy
DVDRip | MKV | 768x576 | x264 @ 2225 Kbps | 79 min | 1,35 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Christoph Schlingensief
Writers: Mathias Colli, Christoph Schlingensief
Stars: Brigitte Kausch, Karl Friedrich Mews, Helge Schneider
Mutters Maske aka Mother's Mask is a free adaptation of the film Opfergang (1944) aka The Great Sacrifice of Veit Harlan.
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.
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Mother's Mask (1988) Mutters Maske
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