Sheer Madness (1985)

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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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 wi... Read all

Margarethe von Trotta

Director

Hanna Schygulla(I)

as Olga

Angela Winkler

as Ruth

Peter Striebeck(I)

as Franz

Christine Fersen(1944-2008)

as Erika

Franz Buchrieser

as Dieter

Wladimir Yordanoff(1954-2020)

as Alexaj

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