The read
It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Volker SchlöndorffDirector
- Peter HammScreenplay
- Volker SchlöndorffScreenplay
- Friedrich MeyerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Senta BergerRuth Halbfass
- Margarethe von TrottaDoris Vogelsang
- Helmut GriemFranz Vogelsang
- Peter EhrlichErich Halbfass
- Marian SeidowskyFrancesco
- Wilhelm GrasshoffBankdirektor Spengler
- Walter SedlmayrWaffenhändler
- Karl-Heinz MerzBonaparte
- Susanne RettigAglaia Halbfass