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Sheer Madness

6.786 average rating
6.786
German / 105 MIN. / 1983

The Genres

The Synopsis

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

The Cast

Hanna SchygullaAngela WinklerPeter StriebeckChristine FersenFranz BuchrieserWladimir YordanoffAgnes FinkFelix MoellerJochen StriebeckHelga BallhausTherese AffolterWerner EichhornPeter AustCarla EgererIrene ClarinFelix von ManteuffelAxel MilbergDoris SchadeMargarethe von Trotta

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