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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

59 %|Sep 17, 1979|Drama

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?

Featured Crew

Margarethe von Trotta
Director
Wolfgang Bächler
Writer
Franz Rath
Director of Photography
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Producer
Margarethe von Trotta
Writer
Annette Dorn
Editor
Konstantin Wecker
Music
Luisa Francia
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Cast

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Jutta Lampe
Maria Sundermann
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Gudrun Gabriel
Anna Sundermann
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Konstantin Wecker
Robert Edelschneider
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Agnes Fink
Mutter Sundermann
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Heinz Bennent
Münzinger