Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Strätz, Irm Hermann, Karl-Heinz Böhm. Based on the novel by Theodor Fontane. Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. A foreign film (Germany). 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Special features: Fassbinder filmography; Hannah Schygulla filmography; weblinks.
Summary:
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
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