Effi Briest
- Original title
- Effi Briestaka
- AKA
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- Fontane Effi Briest
- Year
- 1974
- Running time
- 134 min.
- Country
- Germany - West Germany (FRG)
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Hanna Schygulla
- Wolfgang Schenck
- Ulli Lommel
- Karlheinz Böhm
- Ursula Strätz
- Irm Hermann
- Eva Mattes
- Peter Gauhe
- Barbara Valentin
- Andrea Schober
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- Music
- Cinematography
Jürgen Jürges, Dietrich Lohmann (B&W)- Producer
- 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
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1974: Berlin Film Festival: Interfilm Award
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