Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück
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| Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Phillip Jutzi |
| Written by | Willy Döll Jan Fethke |
| Starring | Alexandra Schmitt as Mutter Krause
Holmes Zimmermann as Paul Ilse Trautschold as Erna Gerhard Bienert as the Tenant Vera Sacharowa as the Prostitute Friedrich Gnaß as Max Fee Wachsmuth as the Child |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück ("Mother Krause's Path to Happiness") is a silent film directed by Phillip Jutzi, filmed in 1929 in Germany. It depicts the cruelty of poverty and depicts Communism as a rescuing force that, alas, reaches Mutter Krause and her grandchild too late.
[edit] Plot
Mutter Krausen, her daughter Erna, her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin. Mutter Krause is a quiet, long-suffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers. However, Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink. Mutter Krause can't pay back the money she owes the man whose newspapers she delivered and he accuses her of stealing and threatens her with arrest. Mutter Krause must then pawn her last valuable possession, a treasured memento of her late husband. Paul then breaks into the same pawn shop. He gets away but is later arrested. Meanwhile, Erna begins dating a young man with Communist views, who turns Erna to Communism and also helps her earn the money her mother needs by more honest means. At the last minute, she meets a man who can help her with her family's financial troubles. However, Mutter Krause doesn't know about this, and while Erna and Max are at a political rally, Mutter Krause turns on the gas in the apartment and kills herself along with her young grandchild.
[edit] Notes
The scene near the end depicting the political rally glorifies the marching forms of the Communist rally-goers.
The original German intertitles are written in the Berliner dialect, lending an authentic feel to the dialogue.[1]
