Edith's diary

Edith wants a better world. That is what she is fighting for - in public with political commitment and at home in her diary with the weapons of her fantasy.

Reality is different, when Edith describes it in her diary. Paul, her husband leaves her. Chris, her son, turns into an alcoholic. Uncle Georg, old and infirm, brought into the house by Paul, has to be looked after and cared for by Edith right to the very end. Increasingly, Edith flees from this environment into the intact and cheerful world of her diary, which she gradually confuses with reality. Before Chris, who had already left normality behind long ago, is commiitted to a psychiatric clinic, she tries to save him with her love. But Edith's fate decides otherwise.

Edith Baumeister: Angela Winkler | Paul Baumeister: Vadim Glowna | Chris Baumeister: Leopold von Verschuer | Onkel Georg: Hans Madin | Sabine Angerwolf: Irm Herrmann | Bernd Angerwolf: Wolfgang Condrus | Dr. Bleibig: F.G. Beckhaus | Dr. Starr: Werner Eichhorn | Katharina Ems: Sona MacDonald | Annemarie: Michaele Gries | Helga: Beate Tober und Dieter Baier, Pierre Clement, Barbara Czerwinski, Susanne Keller, Barbara Morawiecz, Britta Pohland, Edith Stiller, Eric Will

Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer | Screenplay: Hans W. Geißendörfer based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith | Director of photography: Michael Ballhaus | Editor: Helga Borsche | Set designer: Toni Lüdi | Costume designer: Katharina von Martius | Make up artist: Gerlinde Kunz | Music: Jürgen Knieper | 1st assistent director: Stefaan Schieder | Location manager: Michael Müller, Dieter Voßmerbäumer | Originalt sound: Gerd Müller | Sound design: Milan Bor | Special effects: Theo Nischwitz | Pyrotechnical effects: Karl Baumgartner | Continuity: Kerstin Rethmeier | Associated producer: Willi Segler

Drama | Germany 1986 | 108 minutes

A coproduction of Hans W. Geißendörfer Filmproduktion, Munich / Roxy-Film Luggi Waldleitner, Munich / Pro-ject Filmproduction by Filmverlag der Autoren, Munich and ZDF | 35 mm | colour | 2967 meter