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.
Cast
- Hanna Schygulla as Effi Briest
- Wolfgang Schenck as Baron Geert von Instetten
- Ulli Lommel as Major Crampas
- Lilo Pempeit as Frau Briest
- Herbert Steinmetz as Herr Briest
- Ursula Strätz as Roswitha
- Irm Hermann as Johanna
- Karlheinz Böhm as Wullersdorf
- Karl Scheydt as Kruse
- Barbara Lass as Köchin