Released:
1979-09-17

Overview:
Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?

Director:
Margarethe von Trotta

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Jutta Lampe
  as
  Maria Sundermann
• 
  Gudrun Gabriel
  as
  Anna Sundermann
• 
  Konstantin Wecker
  as
  Robert Edelschneider
• 
  Agnes Fink
  as
  Mutter Sundermann
• 
  Heinz Bennent
  as
  Münzinger