Effi Briest
- IMDb link: 0071458
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (3,057 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, History
- Director: Ulli Lommel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Lilo Pempeit and others
- Release date: 16 Jun 1977
- Release year: 1974
- Runtime: 135 minutes
- Country: West Germany
- Keywords: dissatisfaction, young wife, east elbia, swinging, voice over, voice over narration, train, playing piano, beach, gun duel
Plot
Storyline
17-year-old Effi Briest is forced into a loveless marriage with the elderly Baron von Instetten. Living as the aristocrat's trophy wife, Effi endures her provincial existence unhappily. Because of her husband's constant traveling.
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.
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