Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Agnes Fink, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Gudrun Gabriel, Heinz Bennent, Jessica Früh, Jutta Lampe, Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Delventhal
Synopsis:
Cast: Agnes Fink, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Gudrun Gabriel, Heinz Bennent, Jessica Früh, Jutta Lampe, Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Delventhal
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?
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The New York Times
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Dave Kehr
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