Film · Drama, History
Effi Briest (1974)
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.
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writers
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Theodor Fontane
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- June 20, 1974
- Original title
- Fontane Effi Briest
Cast
Hanna SchygullaEffi Briest
Wolfgang SchenckBaron Geert von Instetten
Ulli LommelMajor Crampas
Lilo PempeitFrau Briest- Herbert SteinmetzHerr Briest
- Ursula SträtzRoswitha
Irm HermannJohanna
Karlheinz BöhmWullersdorf
Karl ScheydtKruse
Barbara LassKöchin
Rudolf LenzGeheimrat Rummschüttel- Andrea SchoberAnnie
Eva MattesHulda- Theo TecklenburgPastor Niemeyer
- An Dorthe BrakerFrau Pasche
Peter GauheVetter Dagobert
Barbara ValentinMarietta Tripelli
Hark BohmPharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited)
Rainer Werner FassbinderNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
