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Effi Briest

Original title

Effi Briestaka

AKA

Fontane Effi Briest

Year

1974

Running time

134 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenwriter

Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Novel: Theodor Fontane

Cast

Music

Camille Saint-Sens

Cinematography

Jürgen Jürges, Dietrich Lohmann (B&W)

Producer

Tango-Film

Genre

Drama. Romance | 19th Century

Movie Groups

Theodor Fontane Adaptations

Synopsis

Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition that causes her to accept a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a Prussian diplomat who is much older than Effi. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship and finding none from her busy husband, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize even her tenuous position as the Baron's wife.

Awards: 1974: Berlin Film Festival: Interfilm Award

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Effi Briest

1974

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

6.9

(434)