Effi Briest
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Drama. Romance
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 ... [+]