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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Senta BergerRuth Halbfass
Margarethe von TrottaDoris Vogelsang
Helmut GriemFranz Vogelsang
Peter EhrlichErich Halbfass
Marian SeidowskyFrancescoWilhelm Grasshoff
Wilhelm GrasshoffBankdirektor Spengler
Walter SedlmayrWaffenhändlerKarl-Heinz Merz
Karl-Heinz MerzBonaparteSusanne Rettig
Susanne RettigAglaia HalbfassExplore the crew
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Screenplay
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Screenplay
- Peter Hamm
- Editor
- Claus von Boro
- Director of Photography
- Klaus Müller-Laue
- Original Music Composer
- Friedrich Meyer