Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks 1979

Synopsis:

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?

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
Written by: Margarethe von Trotta & Martje Grohmann & Wolfgang Bächler & Luisa Francia
Release date: 1979-09-17
Runtime: 95 minutes
Cast:
Jutta Lampe
Jutta Lampe
Maria Sundermann 
Gudrun Gabriel
Gudrun Gabriel
Anna Sundermann 
Konstantin Wecker
Konstantin Wecker
Robert Edelschneider 
Agnes Fink
Agnes Fink
Mutter Sundermann 
Heinz Bennent
Heinz Bennent
Münzinger 
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Also known as:
  • Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness