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Mutters Maske (1988)
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.
Updated May 23 2020
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Cast
Uli Hanisch
Helge Schneider
Martin von Mühlenbeck
Andreas Kunze
Pastor Kippling
Charlie Weiss
Reporter
Sergej Gleithmann
Dr. Himmel
Susanne Bredehöft
Els
Mathias Colli
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Crew
Helge Schneider
Original Music Composer
Christoph Schlingensief
Director
Christoph Schlingensief
Writer
Christoph Schlingensief
Director of Photography
Christoph Schlingensief
Editor
Christoph Schlingensief
Producer
Charlie Weiss
Original Music Composer
Mathias Colli
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