The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

Ruth is the wife of well-heeled corsetry manufacturer Erich Halbfass. As business booms, Erich lives frivolously and their daughter Aglaia attends school. The bored middle-class wife begins a secret affair with Aglaia's drawing teacher, setting murder and manslaughter in motion.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Cast: Senta Berger, Margarethe von Trotta, Helmut Griem, Peter Ehrlich, Marian Seidowsky, Wilhelm Grasshoff, Walter Sedlmayr, Karl-Heinz Merz

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