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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Drama · 1h 35m
Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
Cast
Gudrun Gabriel
Konstantin Wecker
Agnes Fink
Heinz Bennent
Crew
- Director
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Writer
- Wolfgang Bächler, Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia, Martje Grohmann
- Director of Photography
- Franz Rath
- Editor
- Annette Dorn
- Producer
- Eberhard Junkersdorf
Details
- Original title
- Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
- Release date
- 1979-09-17
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Neue Bioskop Film, WDR