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 byRainer Werner Fassbinder
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Language
- DE
- Released
- June 20, 1974
Featuring
Cast & crew
Hanna Schygulla
Effi Briest
Wolfgang Schenck
Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel
Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit
Frau Briest
Herbert Steinmetz
Herr Briest
Ursula Strätz
Roswitha
Irm Hermann
Johanna
Karlheinz Böhm
Wullersdorf
Karl Scheydt
Kruse
Barbara Lass
Köchin
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Written by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Produced by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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