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The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
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The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

1972
Directed byVolker Schlöndorff
1h 29m

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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Senta BergerRuth HalbfassMargarethe von TrottaDoris VogelsangHelmut Griem
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Franz Vogelsang
Peter EhrlichErich Halbfass
Marian SeidowskyFrancesco
Wilhelm GrasshoffBankdirektor Spengler
Walter SedlmayrWaffenhändler
Karl-Heinz MerzBonaparte
Susanne RettigAglaia Halbfass
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GENRES
DramaComedy
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.6

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