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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

  • September 1979
  • 1hr

    35mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Margarethe von Trotta,

    Starring

    Jutta Lampe,

    Gudrun Gabriel,

    Konstantin Wecker,

    Agnes Fink

    ...

    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?