📜 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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
🌏 Languages Available:
German
📆 Date Released:
1983-02-25
⌚ Running Time:
105 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.8
Beloved Cast
Olga
Hanna Schygulla
Ruth
Angela Winkler
Franz
Peter Striebeck
Erika
Christine Fersen
Dieter
Franz Buchrieser
Alexaj
Wladimir Yordanoff
Ruth's mother
Agnes Fink
Christof
Felix Moeller
Bruno
Jochen Striebeck
Helga Ballhaus
Therese Affolter
Werner Eichhorn
Peter Aust
Carla Egerer
Irene Clarin
Felix von Manteuffel
Axel Milberg
Doris Schade
Margarethe von Trotta
