Effi Briest

  • History
  • Drama
6/20/1974
141

Storyline

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.

Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    • adultery
    • naivety
    • berlin, germany
    • becoming an adult
    • age difference
    • way of life
    • life planning
    • northern germany
    • duel
    • single father
    • baltic sea
    • new german cinema

    Cast

    • Hanna Schygulla
      Effi Briest
    • Wolfgang Schenck
      Baron Geert von Instetten
    • Ulli Lommel
      Major Crampas
    • Lilo Pempeit
      Frau Briest
    • Herbert Steinmetz
      Herr Briest
    • Ursula Strätz
      Roswitha
    • Irm Hermann
      Johanna
    • Karlheinz Böhm
      Wullersdorf
    • Karl Scheydt
      Kruse
    • Barbara Lass
      Köchin
    • Rudolf Lenz
      Geheimrat Rummschüttel
    • Andrea Schober
      Annie
    • Eva Mattes
      Hulda
    • Theo Tecklenburg
      Pastor Niemeyer
    • An Dorthe Braker
      Frau Pasche
    • Peter Gauhe
      Vetter Dagobert

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