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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

5.9 95 mins Drama   1979
Neue Bioskop Film   WDR  
Director(s): Margarethe von Trotta

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?

Casts of Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

Jutta Lampe

as Maria Sundermann

Gudrun Gabriel

as Anna Sundermann

Konstantin Wecker

as Robert Edelschneider

Agnes Fink

as Mutter Sundermann

Heinz Bennent

as Münzinger

Jessica Früh

as Miriam

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