Sheer Madness

Sheer Madness (1983)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1983-02-25
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 6 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Les Films du Losange
  • Production Country: France, Germany
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Summary

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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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    Directing Margarethe von Trotta Director
    Writing Margarethe von Trotta Writer
    Camera Michael Ballhaus Director of Photography
    Sound Nicolas Economou Original Music Composer
    Editing Dagmar Hirtz Editor
    Costume & Make-Up Monika Hasse Costume Design
    Production Eberhard Junkersdorf Producer
    Production Margaret Ménégoz Producer
    Art Jürgen Henze Set Decoration
    Art Werner Mink Set Decoration