Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
1979 · 95 min
Drama
★ 5.7Sisters 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?
Crew
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Writer Wolfgang Bächler
- Writer Margarethe von Trotta
- Writer Luisa Francia
- Writer Martje Grohmann
- Director of Photography Franz Rath
Cast
Crew
- Director — Margarethe von Trotta
- Writer — Wolfgang Bächler
- Writer — Margarethe von Trotta
- Writer — Luisa Francia
- Writer — Martje Grohmann
- Director of Photography — Franz Rath
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