Sheer Madness
Trailer: Sheer Madness
Year: 1983
Genre: Drama
Studio: Les Films du Losange, WDR, Neue Bioskop Film
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser, Wladimir Yordanoff
Crew: Margarethe von Trotta (Director), Margarethe von Trotta (Writer), Michael Ballhaus (Director of Photography), Margaret Ménégoz (Producer), Eberhard Junkersdorf (Producer), Nicolas Economou (Original Music Composer)
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