Release Date
Original Release
September 17, 1979
1h 35m
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
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?
Director
Margarethe von Trotta
Department: Directing
Cast
Jutta Lampe
Maria Sundermann
Gudrun Gabriel
Anna Sundermann
Konstantin Wecker
Robert Edelschneider
Agnes Fink
Mutter Sundermann
Heinz Bennent
Münzinger
Fritz Lichtenhahn
Fritz
Jessica Früh
Miriam
Rainer Delventhal
Unknown
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