Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

Name: Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-09-17
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 5.667
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta

Drama

19791h 35m5.7

Overview

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?