Effi Briest
Fontane Effi Briest
1974 · 2h 21m · 6.6
History, Drama
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.
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Strätz, Irm Hermann, Karlheinz Böhm, Karl Scheydt, Barbara Lass
adultery, naivety, berlin, germany, becoming an adult, age difference, way of life, life planning, northern germany, duel, single father, baltic sea, new german cinema