![Sheer Madness](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original//zHlV8PzHXqBm37Ka0Brz25JaYVu.jpg)
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Sheer Madness
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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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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.
Cast
![Hanna Schygulla](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//fxH98JLkAYB2vSpo7bT5OHhoQ42.jpg)
Hanna Schygulla
Olga
![Angela Winkler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//vX2MuzSTmhxx1uWrplsUP6aXaV6.jpg)
Angela Winkler
Ruth
![Peter Striebeck](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Peter Striebeck
Franz
![Christine Fersen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//Awcnx24LeA6mxekSJHg6TJ8yUSU.jpg)
Christine Fersen
Erika
![Franz Buchrieser](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ga156qrb6x7kupHBojE1jNHGRsw.jpg)
Franz Buchrieser
Dieter
![Wladimir Yordanoff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//y5v8SwrgXxyjzYFnfs1Evv1llfl.jpg)
Wladimir Yordanoff
Alexaj
![Agnes Fink](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Agnes Fink
Ruth's mother
![Felix Moeller](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//hm2LXqM9c9ycXloX3sXBeXbNCpu.jpg)
Felix Moeller
Christof
![Jochen Striebeck](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jochen Striebeck
Bruno
![Helga Ballhaus](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Helga Ballhaus
![Therese Affolter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//srPjoY8cAwVlfqdpzuKVOBgX5AO.jpg)
Therese Affolter
![Werner Eichhorn](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Werner Eichhorn
![Peter Aust](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Peter Aust
![Carla Egerer](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Carla Egerer
![Irene Clarin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Irene Clarin
![Felix von Manteuffel](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//bThS31di24mh7sjAjSlK43vCGOj.jpg)
Felix von Manteuffel
![Axel Milberg](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//eK1Kkda8rOZMgo5BYBUVeYenOwj.jpg)
Axel Milberg
![Doris Schade](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aFhyDdmrd3jJJ0TI64uO0cUWCXP.jpg)
Doris Schade
![Margarethe von Trotta](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rxFG8ZBtXRt0iRzMKiFOq579GD.jpg)