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Fontane - Effi Briest oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen (1974)
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16 June 1977 (USA) morePlot:
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
The word "masterpiece" comes immediately to mind... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Hanna Schygulla | ... | Effi Briest / von Instetten | |
| Wolfgang Schenck | ... | Baron Geert von Instetten | |
| Ulli Lommel | ... | Major Crampas | |
| Lilo Pempeit | ... | Louise Briest, Mutter | |
| Herbert Steinmetz | ... | Herr Briest, Vater | |
| Ursula Strätz | ... | Roswitha, Kindermädchen | |
| Irm Hermann | ... | Johanna, Haushälterin | |
| Karlheinz Böhm | ... | Geheimrat Wüllersdorf (as Karl-Heinz Böhm) | |
| Karl Scheydt | ... | Kruse | |
| Barbara Lass | ... | Polnische Köchin | |
| Rudolf Lenz | ... | Geheimrat Rummschüttel | |
| Andrea Schober | ... | Annie von Instetten, Tochter | |
| Eva Mattes | ... | Hulda | |
| Theo Tecklenburg | ... | Pastor Niemeyer | |
| An Dorthe Braker | ... | Frau Pasche (as Anndorthe Braker) |
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Germany:140 min | USA:135 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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This film has everything one could ask for: astonishing visual intelligence and imagination, wonderfully evocative, impeccably composed images that draw on silent cinema and painting, all perfectly adapted to the very moving story being told, and the period/milieu in which it unfolds: Effie Briest is presented as enclosed in the many different spaces (most of them - especially the interiors - saturated with stifling formality, social rectitude and conformity) through which she moves and in which she lives, or tries to live (the bird in the cage being a transparent symbol of all this). Quite simply, Fassbinder knows - knew - what "mise en scene" really means. The passage of time is brilliantly handled (through, for example, the use of the fade to white, intertitles and a moving voice-over narration), and the cast is flawless, as well as being flawlessly directed. A film of immense dignity and power, yet it somehow remains understated...