Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)

  • 12
  • 10/01/1979 (AT)
  • Drama
  • 1h 35m

Overview

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?

Margarethe von Trotta

Director, Writer

Wolfgang Bächler

Writer

Luisa Francia

Writer

Martje Grohmann

Writer

Cast

Jutta Lampe's headshot

Jutta Lampe

Maria Sundermann
Gudrun Gabriel's headshot

Gudrun Gabriel

Anna Sundermann
Konstantin Wecker's headshot

Konstantin Wecker

Robert Edelschneider
Agnes Fink's headshot

Agnes Fink

Mutter Sundermann
Heinz Bennent's headshot

Heinz Bennent

Münzinger
Fritz Lichtenhahn's headshot

Fritz Lichtenhahn

Fritz
Jessica Früh's headshot

Jessica Früh

Miriam
Rainer Delventhal's headshot

Rainer Delventhal

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