Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)

Drama

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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  • Release Date: 1979-09-17
  • Runtime: 1h 35min
  • Director: Margarethe von Trotta

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    • 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

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