Sheer Madness 1983  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Friends and Husbands
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser, Jochen Striebeck, Wladimir Yordanoff, Therese Affolter, Agnes Fink, Werner Eichhorn
Pianist and feminist literature teacher Olga (Hanna Schygulla) enjoys a relationship with an artist harboring suicidal tendencies, Ruth (Angela Winkler). The friendship is encouraged by Ruth's husband, Franz (Peter Striebeck). However, as the women rely more and more on each other, Franz feels left out, and problems ensue.
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Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness 1979 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh, Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Delventhal, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Gunther Schutz, Ilse Bahrs
Executive secretary Maria (Jutta Lampe) and biology student Anna (Gudrun Gabriel) are sisters who share a complex dysfunctional relationship that ends when Anna commits suicide. Marcia then takes young typist Miriam (Jessica Fruh) under her wing, but will this relationship succeed where the one with Anna failed?
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| 1. Sheer Madness (1983)
aka: Friends and Husbands
2. Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (1979)
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