Mother Krauses Journey to Happiness

Movie"The great Zillemovie"
Audience Score
75
Mother Krauses Journey to Happiness
NR 2 hr 13 minDrama
Mutter Krause her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlins Wedding district Along with them lives the Tenant his soontobe bride Friede who works as a prostitute and her child whose name isnt revealed in the film Mutter Krause is a quiet longsuffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers However Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink Mutter Krause cant 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

Movie Details

Original Language:German
Production Companies:PrometheusFilmVerleih