poster
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

First aired on Sep 17, 1979

Runtime: 95 mins

50%

Genres: 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?

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Jutta Lampe | Maria Sundermann
Gudrun Gabriel | Anna Sundermann
Konstantin Wecker | Robert Edelschneider
Agnes Fink | Mutter Sundermann
Heinz Bennent | Münzinger
Fritz Lichtenhahn | Fritz
Featured Crew
crew image
Margarethe von Trotta | Director
crew image
Franz Rath | Director of Photography
crew image
Wolfgang Bächler | Writer
crew image
Eberhard Junkersdorf | Producer
crew image
Konstantin Wecker | Music
crew image
Luisa Francia | Writer