Film

Sheer Madness

7.019831h 45m16Drama

Age rating: 16
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Year: 1983

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with the men in their lives.

Top 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

Felix von Manteuffel

Axel Milberg

Doris Schade

Directed by

Margarethe von Trotta

Written by

Margarethe von Trotta

Produced by

Margaret Ménégoz, Eberhard Junkersdorf