🎬 Drama

Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

⭐ 5.7/10 1979 1h 35m Dir. Margarethe von Trotta

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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?

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5.7/10 9 votes

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Year
1979
Runtime
1h 35m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 5.7/10
Votes
9
Genre
Drama
Language
DE

Cast

🎭 Drama 🎬 Margarethe von Trotta 👤 Jutta Lampe 👤 Gudrun Gabriel 👤 Konstantin Wecker
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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness has a runtime of 1h 35m (1 hour and 35 minutes).
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness was directed by Margarethe von Trotta and released in 1979.
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness is a Drama film (1979).
The cast of Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness includes Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent.
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness has a TMDB rating of 5.7/10 based on 9 votes.

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