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.
Movie Info
Release Date: 4/12/1972
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Writers: Volker Schlöndorff
Top Cast
Senta Berger
Ruth Halbfass
Margarethe von Trotta
Doris Vogelsang
Helmut Griem
Franz Vogelsang
Peter Ehrlich
Erich Halbfass
Walter Sedlmayr
Waffenhändler
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