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.

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Cast

Senta Berger

Margarethe von Trotta

Helmut Griem

Peter Ehrlich

Marian Seidowsky

Wilhelm Grasshoff

Walter Sedlmayr

Karl-Heinz Merz

Susanne Rettig