Effi Briest
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Produced by Tango Film
A tragic period drama about a naive young woman trapped by social convention and her own choices, exploring the rigid constraints of 19th-century German society on female autonomy.
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.
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