Sheer Madness

Sheer Madness (1983)

Released: 1983-02-25 Duration: 1hr 45min
Genres: Drama
Rating 6.8

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.

Production Companies

Les Films du Losange
Les Films du Losange
WDR
WDR
Neue Bioskop Film
Neue Bioskop Film

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language de
Popularity 5.884

Directed By

Margarethe von Trotta

Crew

Director of Photography
Michael Ballhaus
Set Decoration
Werner Mink
Costume Design
Monika Hasse
Original Music Composer
Nicolas Economou
Set Decoration
Jürgen Henze
Editor
Dagmar Hirtz

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