Sheer Madness by Margarethe von Trotta
6.80
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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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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Cast
Hanna Schygulla as Olga
Angela Winkler as Ruth
Peter Striebeck as Franz
Christine Fersen as Erika
Franz Buchrieser as Dieter
Wladimir Yordanoff as Alexaj
Agnes Fink as Ruth's mother
Felix Moeller as Christof
Jochen Striebeck as Bruno
Helga Ballhaus as
Therese Affolter as
Werner Eichhorn as
Peter Aust as
Carla Egerer as
Irene Clarin as
Felix von Manteuffel as
Axel Milberg as
Doris Schade as
Margarethe von Trotta as
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