Two sisters, one apartment, eighty years of resentment — and one artist who changes everything.
All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma (Cornelia Froboess) in the apartment of their deceased mother. The grove Wilma seizes every opportunity she gets to be a nuisance to her sister. When Margot meets artist Gregor (Matthias Habich), she finally gets the courage to tell her sister that she wants to enjoy her life and get out of the house. But Wilma does not agree with this.
Acting
Fendel and Froboess embody decades of resentment in every glance.
Direction
Von Trotta turns one apartment into a whole suffocating world.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll feel personally attacked.
Director
Margarethe von Trotta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Von Trotta, a leading voice of New German Cinema, rarely gets her late-career TV films discussed internationally — this is hidden gem territory.
Rosemarie Fendel was 82 during filming and had to be convinced to take the role; her raw vulnerability wasn't acting, it was lived experience.
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