Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Margarethe von TrottaWriter
- Original title
- Heller Wahn
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 25, 1983
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- France, Germany
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Cast
Hanna SchygullaOlga
Angela WinklerRuth- Peter StriebeckFranz
Christine FersenErika
Franz BuchrieserDieter
Wladimir YordanoffAlexaj
Agnes FinkRuth's mother
Felix MoellerChristof- Jochen StriebeckBruno
- Helga Ballhaus
Therese Affolter- Werner Eichhorn
- Peter Aust
- Carla Egerer
- Irene Clarin
Felix von Manteuffel
Axel Milberg
Doris Schade
Margarethe von Trotta
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