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Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness
Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness

Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness

The great Zille-movie

Genres

Drama

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Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed in the film. 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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Runtime

133 mins

Rating

7/10

Release Date

30 December 1929

Country

Germany

Cast

Alexandra Schmitt

Alexandra Schmitt

Mutter Krause

Holmes Zimmermann

Holmes Zimmermann

Paul

Ilse Trautschold

Ilse Trautschold

Erna

Gerhard Bienert

Gerhard Bienert

Untermieter

Vera Sacharowa

Vera Sacharowa

Prostituierte

Friedrich Gnaß

Friedrich Gnaß

Max

Fee Wachsmuth

Fee Wachsmuth

Kind

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