Friends and Husbands / Sheer Madness
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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Les Films du Losange
- Foreign production company : Bioskop Film
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Margarethe Von Trotta
- Director of Photography : Michael Ballhaus
- Music Composer : Nicolas Economou
- Editor : Dagmar Hirtz
- Foreign Producer : Eberhard Junkersdorf
- Producer : Margaret Menegoz
- Production Manager : Régis Wargnier
- Location managers : Patrick Delabrière, Fabienne Faudot-Bel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Friendship
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1983
- French release : 19/10/1983
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 56083
- Visa issue date : 16/03/1983
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
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