Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness 1979

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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?

Release Date 1979-09-17
Runtime 1h 35m
Directors Margarethe von Trotta, Franz Rath
Producer Eberhard Junkersdorf
Writers Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia, Martje Grohmann, Wolfgang Bächler