Movie: Sheer Madness

Top 10 Billed Cast

Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla

Olga

Angela Winkler
Angela Winkler

Ruth

Peter Striebeck
Peter Striebeck

Franz

Christine Fersen
Christine Fersen

Erika

Franz Buchrieser
Franz Buchrieser

Dieter

Wladimir Yordanoff
Wladimir Yordanoff

Alexaj

Agnes Fink
Agnes Fink

Ruth's mother

Felix Moeller
Felix Moeller

Christof

Jochen Striebeck
Jochen Striebeck

Bruno

Helga Ballhaus
Helga Ballhaus

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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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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 Date

    1983-02-25

  • Average

    6.8

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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    Deutsch
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