Mother's courage

This article deals with the German fiction film from 1995. For the drama by Bertolt Brecht see Mother Courage and Her Children .

Movie
Original title	Mother's courage
Country of production	Germany , Great Britain , Austria
original language	English , German
Publishing year	1995
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Michael Verhoeven
script	Michael Verhoeven
production	Veit Heiduschka Michael Verhoeven
music	Julian Nott Simon Verhoeven
camera	Michael Epp Theo Bierkens
cut	David Freeman
occupation
George Tabori : George Tabori Pauline Collins : Elsa Tabori Ulrich Tukur : SS officer Natalie Morse : Maria Robert Giggenbach : Cornelius Tabori Heribert Sasse : Kelemen Günter Bothur : mustache Simon Verhoeven : Young SS man Buddy Elias : Rabbi Peter Radtke : Man in a wheelchair Otto Grünmandl : Julius Hana Frejkova : Martha Jens Harzer : Young man in pajamas Tatiana Vilhelmová : Olga István Iglódi : Usicky Eddi Arent : Klapka Wolfgang Gasser : Agloof Horst Hiemer : German professor Peter Mohrdieck : bald man Axel Scholtz : Schächter Jaroslava Kretschmerová : The young Emma

Mutters Courage is a German feature film that was made in 1994 in a British-Austrian co-production and premiered in 1995. The film was based on an autobiographical story by George Tabori .

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The film is set in Budapest in 1944 . George Tabori tells the story of his mother Elsa Tabori, who is a passionate rummy player . She regularly meets up with her friends in Budapest for afternoon games. The danger of being captured and deported by the Nazis on the street is of little interest to them.

And so it is actually arrested and Elsa Tabori is taken to a collection point for the deportation . She and other Jewish people are supposed to be brought to Auschwitz at Budapest Westbahnhof . At a reloading point near the border, Elsa Tabori defends herself against the kidnapping and speaks to the SS officer in charge. She claims to have a protection pass from the Swedish Red Cross . The passport forbids them to be deported. You just don't have it with you. The SS men threaten her with shooting, but the miracle happens: the SS officer is so surprised by Elsa Tabori's courage that he releases her. Elsa Tabori can travel back to Budapest and still get to the rummy game that was arranged on time.

Work history

George Tabori had already worked on his story as a play in 1979, which was premiered with Hanna Schygulla as Elsa Tabori in the Münchner Kammerspiele . The film is another adaptation of this material.

Also in 1979 there was a radio play production by the broadcasters RIAS, NDR and SDR directed by Jörg Jannings .

Reviews

"First German" black comedy about the Holocaust ", whose grotesque and slapstick-like moments in the knowledge of the" Jewish "authorship of the original do not come across. Impressive both as a serious attempt to uncover the complicated machinery of the annihilation machine and in the endeavor to give shape to the unimaginable. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film won the German Film Prize in silver in 1996 . He also won the Bavarian Film Prize for the best production and the best camera work.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

DVD release

• Mother's courage . Kinowelt Home Entertainment 2004

literature

• George Tabori : Mother's Courage . German by Ursula Grützmacher-Tabori . Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, 92 pages, ISBN 3-8031-2462-X

Web links

• Mother Courage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mother's Courage at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mother's Courage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 12, 2017 .