Search results
Margarethe von Trotta delivers a quaint and macabre nightmare with Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness. This familial melodrama tells the story of two sisters; Maria and Anna, the former being a successful, outgoing secretary full of ambition and vigor.
- (341)
- Neue Bioskop Film, WDR
- Margarethe Von Trotta
Orderly Maria (Lampe) runs the household for her resentful, dependent sister Anna (Gabriel). Opposites in temperment, the dysfunctional duo can neither live with or without each other. When Anna commits suicide, Maria tries to makeover young typist Miriam (Fruh) to take her sister's place.
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (‹See Tfd› German: Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) is a 1979 West German drama film written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness: Directed by Margarethe von Trotta. With Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh, Konstantin Wecker. Sisters Maria and Anna live together.
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness is the story of Anna and Maria, whose lives are unwaveringly bound to each other. Maria is the dominant force in the relationship: she works as a stuffy executive secretary, pays the bills, and takes care of Anna, who is slowly, unhappily working towards her degree.
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness. Summaries. Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria, a most proficient secretary, encourages Anna to finish her studies and start a career; Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary.
Sisters features two successful sisters with destructive sibling rivalry. Von Trotta followed it up with Marianne and Julianne in 1981, in which one of two German sisters is a terrorist.
- Drama
