Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks

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Category: 16
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1979
Country: West Germany
Runtime: 95
Rating: (0)
Languages: German
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Winner takes all!

Writing by: Margarethe von Trotta - (screenplay)
Luisa Francia - (script contribution) and
Martje Grohmann - (script contribution)
Wolfgang Bächler - extracts from "Traumprotokolle"

Produced by: Marcello Fondato - associate producer
Elio Scardamaglia - producer
Francesco Scardamaglia - associate producer

Cast: Jutta Lampe - Maria Sundermann
Gudrun Gabriel - Anna Sundermann
Jessica Früh - Miriam Grau
Konstantin Wecker - Robert Edelschneider
Agnes Fink - Mutter Sundermann
Heinz Bennent - Münzinger
Rainer Delventhal - Maurice Münzinger
Fritz Lichtenhahn - Fritz
Günther Schütz - Professor
Ilse Bahrs - Blinde Frau
Barbara Sauerbaum - Maria as a Child

Music: Konstantin Wecker
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Plot Outline: Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career...
Plot: 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?

Movie Quotes: Lady Zero: You stole a ostrich?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Lyrics of "The Rose" are displayed at the end of the credit crawl, scrolling to the ending of the song.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Boom mic visible: On the top of the screen, a microphone hangs down while people chat inside an old house.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The character Marvin Dummitz and the story of Mr. Parker's business partner having had the misfortune to hail Dummitz's cab and never making it to the meeting is a parody of the real-life story of Melvin Dummar and Howard Hughes, which was later told straight in Melvin and Howard.
When Clevon Little and the other servants pull up to rob the grocery store with a fake gun to steal the cash register, the sign on the store reads, "Crown Point Market". Crown Point, Indiana was the town where real life gangster John Dillinger famously broke out of jail using a fake gun.