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Sheer Madness

02/25/1983

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1hr 45min

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Drama

STORY

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hanna Schygulla
  • Angela Winkler
  • Peter Striebeck
  • Christine Fersen
  • Franz Buchrieser

    Directors

  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • Dagmar Hirtz

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Les Films du Losange
  • WDR
  • Neue Bioskop Film

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Hanna Schygulla

Olga

Angela Winkler

Ruth

Peter Striebeck

Franz

Christine Fersen

Erika

Franz Buchrieser

Dieter

Wladimir Yordanoff

Alexaj

Agnes Fink

Ruth's mother

Jochen Striebeck

Bruno

Helga Ballhaus

Therese Affolter

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