Sisters, or the balance of happiness
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Efficient high-powered secretary Maria shares a comfortable apartment with her younger sister Anna, a dreamy, introspective biology student whom she supports and dominates. When the emotionally fragile Anna can no longer endure her dependency on Maria, she commits suicide. Subsequently, Maria befriends Miriam, a woman who works in her office, and begins to replicate the destructive pattern of her catastrophic sibling relationship. Von Trotta's intimate study of sibling and mother-daughter ties also explores the implications of post-war Germany's materialism. (Does not circulate).
Credits
- Directed by
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Written by
- Margarethe von Trotta, Wolfgang Bächler, Luisa Francia
- Cast
- Konstantin Wecker, Jutta Lampe, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent, Fritz Lichtenhahn
- Produced by
- Eberhard Junkersdorf
- Cinematography
- Franz Rath
- Music
- Konstantin Wecker
- Edited by
- Annette Dorn
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q7531265 ↗ — country, genre, credits
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