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Mutters Maske is based on the film Opfergang 1944 by renowned filmmaker of the Third Reich, Veit Harlan. Schlingensief remakes the film — a melodrama that sought to imbue Nazi German self-sacrifice with transcendent meaning — as an exercise in extreme parody and pure kitsch. Both films tell the story of a wife's self-sacrifice for a husband who falls in love with a terminally ill neighbour; Schlingensief distorts this narrative, turning it into a soap opera about German society on the brink of self-annihilation and as a parable of the AIDS epidemic.

Ages 18+