Mutters Courage

Deutschland Großbritannien Österreich 1994/1995 Spielfilm

Summary

My Mother′s Courage

Budapest 1944, an occupied city: A day in the life of George Tabori. His mother is arrested by the Hungarian secret police on the way to her sister and is brought to the West Station where around four thousand Jews have been rounded up to be deported to Auschwitz.

Those deported are transported in cattle trucks to the "Gate of Death", a little border town where they are offloaded until they can be brought in another train to the death camp. The people are herded together in a courtyard and wait for the train from Germany. The mother is also one of those waiting. She suddenly overcomes her inbred obedience and risks trying to break out of the seemingly inexorable transport to destruction. Through a mixture of courage, cunning and sudden insubordination, she manages to return to Budapest. A young German officer finally helps her to escape and saves her life.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

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Credits

All Credits

Script supervisor

Screenplay

Director of photography

Assistant camera

Prop master

Make-up artist

Costume design

Editing

Assistant editor

Foley editor

Music recording

Stunt co-ordinator

Conductor

Cast

Executive producer

Production assistant

Production coordinator

Shoot

    • August 1994 - Oktober 1994: Prag und Umgebung, Budapest und Umgebung, Berlin, München
Duration:
2518 m, 92 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.09.1995, 73753, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CA): 12.09.1995, Toronto, IFF

Titles

  • Schreibvariante Mutters Courage
  • Originaltitel (GB) My Mother's Courage
  • Originaltitel (DE AT) Mutter's Courage

Versions

Original

Duration:
2518 m, 92 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.09.1995, 73753, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CA): 12.09.1995, Toronto, IFF

Prüffassung

Duration:
2431 m, 89 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 05.02.1996, 73753 [2. FSK-Prüfung]

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 1996
  • Filmband in Silber, Bester Film