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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
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?
Where to watch Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness is streaming in the US on Philo, Fandor, Fawesome, Cineverse and Tubi TV.
It is also available to rent or buy from Amazon Video.
Cast
- Jutta Lampe as Maria Sundermann
- Gudrun Gabriel as Anna Sundermann
- Konstantin Wecker as Robert Edelschneider
- Agnes Fink as Mutter Sundermann
- Heinz Bennent as Münzinger
- Fritz Lichtenhahn as Fritz
- Jessica Früh as Miriam
- Rainer Delventhal
Details
- Director
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Released
- September 17, 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Neue Bioskop Film and WDR
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 5.7 / 10 from 9 votes
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