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Effi Briest (2009)

Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.

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Jakob B 17 Mar 2011

It's a beautiful, sensual and absorbing piece of work and some gorgeously rich black-and-white cinematography.

Markku R 09 Jan 2012

My readers know that I am not usually a fan of period pieces but this one works well.

Marcus W 21 May 2016

Gave up half way through, definitely not one of Fassbinder's best works.

Florian F 03 Nov 2007

as long and as boring as the book. sorry...

Richard D 16 Jan 2017

Young Effi Briest marries an older man and moves to a small town. It's not a particular happy marriage, and she forms a close friendship with an associate of her husband Major Crampus. Years later, after moving to Berlin, letters surface that lead her husband to believe that there was an illicit affair between them. A fairly deliberately confounding film, even for Fassbinder. It's told in a fairly oblique style with several key scenes happening off screen, and is interspersed with narration, on screen captions and a lot of novelistic devices. It's a long film that consists mainly of sets of characters talking in carefully arranged, static shots. Most of these conversations don't really drive the plot. That may sound like I disliked the film, but I was really quite taken with it.