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Effi Briest

19742h 21m6.6 TMDB

HistoryDrama

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.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Effi Briest

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Ursula Strätz

Irm Hermann

Karlheinz Böhm

Karl Scheydt

Barbara Lass

Rudolf Lenz

Andrea Schober

Eva Mattes

Theo Tecklenburg

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