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Sheer Madness (1983)

ALL 02/25/1983 (de) Drama 105 Min
  • Release
    02/25/1983
  • Production
    Les Films du Losange, WDR, Neue Bioskop Film
  • Rotten tomato
    68%
  • Original title
    Heller Wahn
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

  2. Story

  3. Dagmar Hirtz

    Editor



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Sheer Madness (1983) 105 Min

ALL 02/25/1983 (de)
Drama
  • Release 02/25/1983
  • Production
    Les Films du Losange, WDR, Neue Bioskop Film
  • Original title Heller Wahn
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

  1. Margarethe von Trotta

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Dagmar Hirtz

    Editor

  4. Eberhard Junkersdorf, Margaret Ménégoz

    Producer



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