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.
Director:
Senta Berger
Ruth Halbfass
Margarethe von Trotta
Doris Vogelsang
Helmut Griem
Franz Vogelsang
Peter Ehrlich
Erich Halbfass
Marian Seidowsky
Francesco
Wilhelm Grasshoff
Bankdirektor Spengler
Walter Sedlmayr
Waffenhändler
Karl-Heinz Merz
Bonaparte
Susanne Rettig
Aglaia Halbfass
