Trailer
Sheer Madness
6.8
|
1h 45m
|
1983
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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
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
Recommendations
I Do, They Don't
2005
6.4
Uganda Rising
2006
5.0
Singit
2023
10.0
Never Stand Still
2012
9.0
Mustard Footbath
1902
4.0
The Hotel of Love Affairs
1983
4.6
#RS
2019
8.5
Texana cien X #5
2000
5.0
Without Justice
1993
8.0
Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
1970
4.8
Yes: Yesspeak
2003
6.0
Yellow Cape Town
Unknown year
7.0
On Our Own
Unknown year
7.7
Vincent Munier, éternel émerveillé
2019
10.0
Black Rusks
1972
8.0