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Effi Briest is a 1971 East German film directed by Wolfgang Luderer . Plot summary. Differences from novel. Cast. Angelica Domröse as Effi Briest. Horst Schulze as Geert von Imstetten. Walter Lendrich as Alonzo Gießhübler. Ursula Am-Ende as Sidonie von Grasenabb. Angelika Ritter as Hertha Jahnke. Susanne Tischbier as Bertha Jahnke.
Plot. The film begins with Effi von Briest, aged 17, on the swing in her parents' garden. Her mother comments on her wild nature, saying that she has an aerial spirit. Talking with other teenage girls, they discuss how Effi's mother was courted by Baron von Instetten when he was a soldier but she chose Effi's father, a councillor and landowner.
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.
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Not Rated
Nov 5, 2006 · Effi Briest is a heroine of the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason, reminding us of the “vicious circles” we are yet to break free from – the murderous timeless dance of the oppressor and the oppressed. The film ultimately unravels with Effi on her deathbed.
- Christa Lang Fuller
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.
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.
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, she finds companionship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
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