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Effi Briest

6.6/ 1019742h 21m

HistoryDrama

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.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

Effi Briest

Wolfgang Schenck

Wolfgang Schenck

Baron Geert von Instetten

Ulli Lommel

Ulli Lommel

Major Crampas

Lilo Pempeit

Lilo Pempeit

Frau Briest

Herbert Steinmetz

Herr Briest

Ursula Strätz

Roswitha

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Johanna

Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

Wullersdorf