It's visually beguiling -- its cameramen having found shades of gray between black and white I'm not sure I've seen before -- and it is performed by the Fassbinder stock company with the precision and style one seldom finds outside the legitimate theater.
Effi Briest
1974 · 2h 21m · Not Rated
Drama, History
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director
- Hanna Schygulla as Effi Briest
- Wolfgang Schenck as Baron Geert von Instetten
- Ulli Lommel as Major Crampas
- Lilo Pempeit as Luise von Briest
- Herbert Steinmetz as Herr von Briest
- Ursula Strätz as Roswitha
- Irm Hermann as Johanna
- Karlheinz Böhm as Wullersdorf
- Karl Scheydt Cast
- Hark Bohm Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The slow, deliberate pace is sometimes taxing, but this story of a 16-year-old girl locked in the boredom of a loveless marriage is perfectly suited to Fassbinder's stifling mise-en-scene.
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