Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
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?
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
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Jutta Lampe as Maria Sundermann |
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Gudrun Gabriel as Anna Sundermann |
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Konstantin Wecker as Robert Edelschneider |
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Agnes Fink as Mutter Sundermann |
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Heinz Bennent as Münzinger |
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Fritz Lichtenhahn as Fritz |
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Jessica Früh as Miriam |
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Rainer Delventhal as |
| Directing | Margarethe von Trotta | Director |
| Writing | Wolfgang Bächler | Writer |
| Camera | Franz Rath | Director of Photography |
| Production | Eberhard Junkersdorf | Producer |
| Writing | Margarethe von Trotta | Writer |
| Editing | Annette Dorn | Editor |
| Sound | Konstantin Wecker | Music |
| Writing | Luisa Francia | Writer |
| Writing | Martje Grohmann | Writer |
