Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979) - Double Feature

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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?


Main Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Jessica Früh, Rainer Delventhal

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Writers: Wolfgang Bächler, Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia, Martje Grohmann

Editor: Annette Dorn

Cinematographer: Franz Rath


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