The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

Original title: Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff

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.