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.
Length 141 minutes
An Dorthe Braker | Hark Bohm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Barbara Valentin | Irm Hermann | Lilo Pempeit | Karl Scheydt | Peter Gauhe | Hanna Schygulla | Karlheinz Böhm | Wolfgang Schenck | Ulli Lommel | Herbert Steinmetz | Ursula Strätz | Barbara Lass | Rudolf Lenz | Andrea Schober | Theo Tecklenburg | Eva Mattes