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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

59% | Sep 17, 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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Margarethe von Trotta
Director
Wolfgang Bächler
Writer

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Jutta Lampe
Maria Sundermann
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Gudrun Gabriel
Anna Sundermann
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Konstantin Wecker
Robert Edelschneider
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Agnes Fink
Mutter Sundermann
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Heinz Bennent
Münzinger

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