Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
1979, German. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
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?
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 17 September 1979
- Original title
- Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Wolfgang Bächler, Margarethe von Trotta, Luisa Francia
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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness is streaming on Philo and Fandor in India. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
What movies are like Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness?
If you liked Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness, try Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, The Girl in the Book, 3 Days in Quiberon.
Who directed Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness?
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979) was directed by Margarethe von Trotta and stars Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Konstantin Wecker.