Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

1979
1h 35m
5.2

5.2/10

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Overview

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?

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Neue Bioskop Film WDR
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
German

Quick Facts

Original Title Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
Release Date September 17, 1979
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0079866

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

Fritz Lichtenhahn
Fritz Lichtenhahn

Fritz

Jessica Früh
Jessica Früh

Miriam

Rainer Delventhal
Rainer Delventhal

Key Crew

Margarethe von Trotta
Director
Wolfgang Bächler
Writer
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Producer
Margarethe von Trotta
Writer
Luisa Francia
Writer
Martje Grohmann
Writer