August 2010 Edition

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Films This Month - Wednesday, March 3, 2010; 7:00pm

Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
(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?

Awards:
  • Margarethe von Trotta - won the Grand Prix At the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, 1981
  • Actress Jutta Lampe - won the Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Individual Achievement at the German Film Awards, 1980
  • David Lean was unconvinced that Alec Guinness could ever play Fagin, until Guinness auditioned for the part.
Collab: Goethe_institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Language: German
Runtime: 95 mins
Year: 1979
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