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.
Cast
Hanna Schygulla
Effi Briest
Wolfgang Schenck
Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel
Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit
Frau Briest
Herbert Steinmetz
Herr Briest
Ursula Strätz
Roswitha
Irm Hermann
Johanna
Karlheinz Böhm
Wullersdorf
Karl Scheydt
Kruse
Barbara Lass
Köchin
Rudolf Lenz
Geheimrat Rummschüttel
Andrea Schober
Annie
Eva Mattes
Hulda
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)
Crew
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Theodor Fontane
Novel
Thea Eymèsz
Editor
Jürgen Jürges
Director of Photography
Dietrich Lohmann
Director of Photography
Fritz Müller-Scherz
Assistant Director
Rainer Langhans
Assistant Director
Thomas Schwan
Assistant Camera
Herbert Paetzold
Assistant Camera
Katharina von Martius
Wardrobe Supervisor
Barbara Baum
Costume Design
Sybille Danzer
Makeup Artist
Ekkehard Heinrich
Lighting Technician
Ernst Küsters
Lighting Technician
Camille Saint-Saëns
Music
Louis Spohr
Music
Peter Gauhe
Still Photographer
Christian Hohoff
Unit Manager
Kurt Raab
Art Direction
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