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Sheer Madness

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Original title

Heller Wahnaka

AKA

Friends and Husbands

Year

1983

Running time

102 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Screenwriter

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Music

Nicolas Economou

Cinematography

Michael Ballhaus

Producer

Co-production Germany - West Germany (FRG)-Germany-France;

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Bioskop Film, Les Films du Losange

Genre

Drama | Friendship

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

Awards: 1983: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection

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Sheer Madness

1983

Margarethe von Trotta

6.4

(42)