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Effi Briest (1974)
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Original name: Fontane Effi Briest
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older diplomat. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize her position as the Baron's wife.
Style:
art house, black and white, postmodern, costume drama, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy
Plot:
crazy love, literary, marriage of convenience, young wife, women, summer, age difference, adultery, duel, german history, countryside, infidelity, single father, grownups, naivete, love triangle, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, injustice, couples, vengeance, society, family problems, introspection ...
Time:
19th century, year 1974, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
berlin germany, northern germany, germany, europe, prussia
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Story:
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