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?
Released in 1979, Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness is a drama film from Neue Bioskop Film (Germany). It was directed by Margarethe von Trotta and written by Wolfgang Bächler and Luisa Francia. The cast is led by Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink and Heinz Bennent. With a runtime of 1h 35m, the film averages 5.7/10 across 9 TMDB ratings.
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