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Effi Briest (1974)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Overview

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.

Length 141 minutes

Actors

Hanna Schygulla | Wolfgang Schenck | Ulli Lommel | Lilo Pempeit | Herbert Steinmetz | Ursula Strätz | Irm Hermann | Karlheinz Böhm | Karl Scheydt | Barbara Lass | Rudolf Lenz | Andrea Schober | Eva Mattes | Theo Tecklenburg | An Dorthe Braker | Peter Gauhe | Barbara Valentin | Hark Bohm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder