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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness(1979)

Name: Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-01-01
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent

Jutta Lampe Gudrun Gabriel Konstantin Wecker Agnes Fink Heinz Bennent

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?