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Effi Briest
Film / 1974

Effi Briest

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
HistoryDrama

★ 6.6/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Hanna SchygullaEffi Briest Wolfgang SchenckBaron Geert von Instetten Ulli LommelMajor Crampas Lilo PempeitFrau Briest Herbert SteinmetzHerr Briest Ursula SträtzRoswitha Irm HermannJohanna Karlheinz BöhmWullersdorf Karl ScheydtKruse Barbara LassKöchin Rudolf LenzGeheimrat Rummschüttel Andrea SchoberAnnie
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Eva MattesHulda Theo TecklenburgPastor Niemeyer An Dorthe BrakerFrau Pasche Peter GauheVetter Dagobert Barbara ValentinMarietta Tripelli Hark BohmPharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited) Rainer Werner FassbinderNarrator (voice) (uncredited)

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