Sisters, Or the Balance of Happiness Movie Review 1979

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. German with subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 97 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Brothers & Sisters, Suicide, Women

Screenplay

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh

Cinematography

Franz Rath

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Music

Konstantin Wecker