Sheer Madness

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

Hanna Schygulla as Olga

Angela Winkler

Angela Winkler as Ruth

Peter Striebeck

Peter Striebeck as Franz

Christine Fersen

Christine Fersen as Erika

Franz Buchrieser

Franz Buchrieser as Dieter

Wladimir Yordanoff

Wladimir Yordanoff as Alexaj

Agnes Fink

Agnes Fink as Ruth's mother

Felix Moeller

Felix Moeller as Christof

Jochen Striebeck

Jochen Striebeck as Bruno

Helga Ballhaus

Helga Ballhaus as

Therese Affolter

Therese Affolter as

Werner Eichhorn

Werner Eichhorn as

Peter Aust

Peter Aust as

Carla Egerer

Carla Egerer as

Irene Clarin

Irene Clarin as

Felix von Manteuffel

Felix von Manteuffel as

Axel Milberg

Axel Milberg as

Doris Schade

Doris Schade as

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta as

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