The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

Name: The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1972-04-12
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Senta Berger, Margarethe von Trotta, Helmut Griem, Peter Ehrlich, Marian Seidowsky

1972

1h 29m

Drama Comedy

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writers: Peter Hamm, Volker Schlöndorff

Overview

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.