Film

The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

5.019721h 29mDrama Comedy

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Year: 1972

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.

Top cast

Senta Berger

Ruth Halbfass

Margarethe von Trotta

Doris Vogelsang

Helmut Griem

Franz Vogelsang

Peter Ehrlich

Erich Halbfass

Marian Seidowsky

Francesco

Wilhelm Grasshoff

Bankdirektor Spengler

Walter Sedlmayr

Waffenhändler

Karl-Heinz Merz

Bonaparte

Susanne Rettig

Aglaia Halbfass

Directed by

Volker Schlöndorff

Written by

Peter Hamm, Volker Schlöndorff