July 16, 2016 at 16:30 – 19:30 Hrs.

Fontane Effi Briest: Film Screening

Film

Fontane Effi Briest: Film Screening © Bookmoby

Based on the novel "Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontane
Direction, screenplay writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federal Republic of Germany, 1974, 140 mins.
Language: German with English subtitles.


Effi Briest is much too young when she marries the ambitious Baron von Instetten. When she is later introduced to Major Crampas, a relationship results which brightens up her for a while. Many years later, long after the relationship has ended, the Baron finds out about their affair. It ends in catastrophe. Fassbinder remains true to his literary source whilst managing to develop a visual language of his own.