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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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
| Release : | 1985 |
| Rating : | 6.6 |
| Studio : | WDR, Les Films du Losange, Neue Bioskop Film, |
| Crew : | Set Decoration, Set Decoration, |
| Cast : | Hanna Schygulla Angela Winkler Christine Fersen Franz Buchrieser Wladimir Yordanoff |
| Genre : | Drama |
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To me, this movie is perfection.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
