The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

5.5

89m

1972

Drama, Comedy

Ruth is the wife of Erich Halbfass, a well-heeled corsetry manufacturer. Business is booming, Erich splashes around in the house swimming pool and daughter Aglaia attends school well. The bored middle-class wife begins a secret affair with Aglaia's drawing teacher Franz Vogelsang, setting murder and manslaughter in motion.

Starring

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

Directed By

Volker Schlöndorff