Sheer Madness (1983)
Overview
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | de |
Popularity | 5.884 |
Directed By
Margarethe von Trotta
Crew
Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta
Michael Ballhaus
Werner Mink
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Monika Hasse
Margaret Ménégoz
Nicolas Economou
Jürgen Henze
Dagmar Hirtz
TOP CAST
Hanna Schygulla
Olga
Angela Winkler
Ruth
Peter Striebeck
Franz
Christine Fersen
Erika
Franz Buchrieser
Dieter
Wladimir Yordanoff
Alexaj
Agnes Fink
Ruth's mother
Felix Moeller
Christof
Jochen Striebeck
Bruno