Sheer Madness

(1983)

Original Title: Heller Wahn

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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

Rating

IMDB 6.6

Genres

Drama, Made in Europe

Runtime

1h 45min

Production country

France, Germany

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Hanna Schygulla
Olga
Angela Winkler
Ruth
Peter Striebeck
Franz
Christine Fersen
Erika
Franz Buchrieser
Dieter
Wladimir Yordanoff
Alexaj
Agnes Fink
Ruth's mother
Felix Moeller
Christof
Jochen Striebeck
Bruno
Helga Ballhaus
Therese Affolter
Werner Eichhorn
Peter Aust
Carla Egerer
Irene Clarin
Felix von Manteuffel
Axel Milberg
Doris Schade
Margarethe von Trotta