Effi Briest

141 mins
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.

Hanna Schygulla

Effi Briest

Wolfgang Schenck

Baron Geert von Instetten

Ulli Lommel

Major Crampas

Lilo Pempeit

Frau Briest

Karlheinz Böhm

Wullersdorf

Rudolf Lenz

Geheimrat Rummschüttel

Theo Tecklenburg

Pastor Niemeyer

An Dorthe Braker

Frau Pasche

Peter Gauhe

Vetter Dagobert

Barbara Valentin

Marietta Tripelli

Hark Bohm

Pharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jürgen Jürges

Director of Photography

Kurt Raab

Art Direction

Dietrich Lohmann

Director of Photography

Barbara Braun

Costume Design

Peter Gauhe

Still Photographer

Thomas Schwan

Assistant Camera

Sybille Danzer

Makeup Artist

Ekkehard Heinrich

Lighting Technician

Ernst Küsters

Lighting Technician

Fritz Müller-Scherz

Assistant Director

Christian Hohoff

Unit Manager

Katharina von Martius

Wardrobe Supervisor

Herbert Paetzold

Assistant Camera

Rainer Langhans

Assistant Director

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