Sheer Madness (1983)

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Sheer Madness (1983)
Drama Friendship

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Angela Winkler · Peter Striebeck · Christine Fersen · Franz Buchrieser · Wladimir Yordanoff · Agnes Fink · Felix Moeller · Jochen Striebeck · Therese Affolter · Werner Eichhorn · Karl Striebeck

Soundtrack Nicolas Economou

Screenplay Margarethe von Trotta

Cinematography Michael Ballhaus

Original title Heller Wahn

Also known as Friends and Husbands

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