Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
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?
- Released
- 1979
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Country
- Germany
- Writers
- Luisa Francia, Margarethe von Trotta, Martje Grohmann, Wolfgang Bächler
- Cinematography
- Franz Rath
- Editor
- Annette Dorn
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