Sheer Madness
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Sheer Madness is a 1983 German
drama film
directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival
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Cinema of Germany
Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival
33rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 33rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 18 to March 3, 1983.-Jury:* Jeanne Moreau * Alex Bänninger* Franco Brusati* Elem Klimov* Ursula Ludwig* Kurt Maetzig* Joseph L...
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Cast
- Hanna SchygullaHanna SchygullaHanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema.-Life and career:Schygulla was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia,...
as Olga - Angela WinklerAngela WinklerAngela Winkler is a German actress.- Biography :Born in Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart. Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer...
as Ruth - Peter Striebeck as Franz
- Christine Fersen as Erika
- Franz Buchrieser as Dieter
- Wladimir Yordanoff as Alexaj
- Agnes Fink as Ruth's mother
- Felix Moeller as Christof
- Jochen Striebeck as Bruno
- Therese Affolter as Renate
- Werner Eichhorn as Schlesinger
- Karl Striebeck as Bruno's father