Summary: 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. (imdb)

AKA: Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness

Genre: Drama

Country: West Germany

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia

Starring: Jutta Lampe, Heinz Bennent, Konstantin Wecker, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh, Agnes Fink, Rainer Delventhal

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