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8:00 PM

German Film Forum 2015/16 - Director in Focus – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Film|Effi Briest

  • Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema, Hong Kong

  • HK$60/30 (full time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above and people with disabilities and minders and CSSA recipients). Other special offers: 20% off for each purchase of standard tickets for 3 (or more) different screenings. Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof enjoy 20% off. The above offers cannot be used in conjunction with other special offers. All films are shown with English subtitles (Except for English dialogues)
Fontane Effi Briest 1974, 141 mins, Germany, I
Award:
1974 Berlin Film Festival – Interfilm Award

Fassbinder’s adaptation of the celebrated nineteenth-century novel by Theodor Fontane with Hanna Schygulla playing the lead Effi Briest. 17 year-old Effi is still far too young to marry when she is betrothed to Baron von Instetten. Her encounter with Major Crampas adds a temporary flurry of excitement to her life. Years later, the Baron learns of their relationship, which is now long over – with dire consequences. Fassbinder stays true to Fontane’s novel, yet creates his own unique imagery.