The Films Of Margarethe Von Trotta Box Set (2005)

Three films by German director Margarethe Von Trotta are collected here.

SISTERS OR THE BALANCE OF HAPPINESS: Two sisters--one a struggling student, the other an established executive--are emotionally co-dependent but psychologically conflicted in this moving feature.

SHEER MADNESS: Two women, one a college professor and the other a troubled artist, struggle to survive in an environment scarred with insanity, suicide, and murder. Michael Ballhaus's stunning cinematography imparts a strange, dreamlike quality to the picture.

SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTINA KLAGES: When her daycare center teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, a distraught mother is pushed to desperate measures: she robs a bank and tries to launder the money--and complications follow.