(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: France, West Germany
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1985-09-20
- Director: Margarethe von Trotta
- Writers: Margarethe von Trotta
- Language: German
- Stars: Hanna Schygulla , Angela Winkler , Peter Striebeck , Christine Fersen , Franz Buchrieser , Wladimir Yordanoff , Agnes Fink , Felix Moeller , Jochen Striebeck , Therese Affolter
- Runtime: 105 min
- Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
- AKA: Labour of Love (Australia) , Heller Wahn , Heller Wahn , Kvindegalskab (Denmark) , L'amie (France, French Republic) , Czyste szaleństwo (Poland) , Sheer Madness (United States of America) , Locura de mujer (Spain) , Józan őrület (Hungary) , Friends and Husbands , I filenada mou (Greece) , Lucida follia (Italy) , Ren illusion (Sweden)
- Plot: 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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
- IMDB:tt0085666
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Margarethe von Trotta
Director
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
Margarethe von Trotta
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