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.

Top Cast

Senta BergerRuth Halbfass

Margarethe von TrottaDoris Vogelsang

Helmut GriemFranz Vogelsang

Peter EhrlichErich Halbfass

Marian SeidowskyFrancesco

Wilhelm GrasshoffBankdirektor Spengler

Walter SedlmayrWaffenhändler

Karl-Heinz MerzBonaparte