Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

Name: Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-09-17
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent

197995 min★5.7 (9 votes)

Drama

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?

Original Language:DE

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