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.

• Volker SchlöndorffDirector
• Peter HammScreenplay
• Volker SchlöndorffScreenplay
• Friedrich MeyerOriginal Music Composer

• 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