Effi Briest (1974)
Fontane Effi Briest
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.
- Date of release
- 1974-06-20
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (52)
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Casting
- 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
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