Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
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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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1979-09-17
Runtime: 95 mins
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Writer: Wolfgang Bächler, Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia, Martje Grohmann
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama
Original title: Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Production Companies: Neue Bioskop Film, WDR
Production Countries: Germany
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