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.
Hanna Schygulla
Effi Briest
Wolfgang Schenck
Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel
Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit
Frau Briest
Herbert Steinmetz
Herr Briest
Ursula Strätz
Roswitha
Irm Hermann
Johanna
Karlheinz Böhm
Wullersdorf
Karl Scheydt
Kruse
Barbara Lass
Köchin
Rudolf Lenz
Geheimrat Rummschüttel
Andrea Schober
Annie
Eva Mattes
Hulda
Theo Tecklenburg
Pastor Niemeyer
An Dorthe Braker
Frau Pasche
Peter Gauhe
Vetter Dagobert
Barbara Valentin
Marietta Tripelli
Hark Bohm
Pharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Director
Screenplay
Theodor Fontane
Novel
Producer
Jürgen Jürges
Director of Photography
Dietrich Lohmann
Thea Eymèsz
Editor
Kurt Raab
Art Direction
Camille Saint-Saëns
Music
Louis Spohr
Sybille Danzer
Makeup Artist
Christian Hohoff
Unit Manager
Rainer Langhans
Assistant Director
Fritz Müller-Scherz
Katharina von Martius
Wardrobe Supervisor
Still Photographer
Ekkehard Heinrich
Lighting Technician
Ernst Küsters
Herbert Paetzold
Assistant Camera
Thomas Schwan
Barbara Baum
Costume Design
