Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (movie)
Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks- User score: 5.9
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Margarethe von Trotta
- Production companies: Neue Bioskop Film, WDR
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 9/17/1979
- Run time: 95 min.
Movie description
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?
