Effi Briest
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Theodor Fontane's 19th century novel, Effi Briest is analogous to Madame Bovary in France. Fassbinder's adaptation manipulates the novel's structure to present a modern re-analysis in terms of the rise of fascism and the oppression of women. The main character a vivacious mixture of anti-conformity and mediocrity is married to a Prussian diplomat several years her senior. When she engages in a passionless affair with a local womanizer, she is subjected to the cruelties of the Prussian code. (Circulates)
Credits
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Written by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hark Bohm, Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel, Rudolf Lenz, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karlheinz Böhm, Eva Mattes, Liselotte Eder, Karl Scheydt, Andrea Schober, Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Ursula Strätz, Herbert Steinmetz, Wolfgang Schenck, Peter Gauhe
- Produced by
- Juliane Lorenz
- Cinematography
- Dietrich Lohmann, Jürgen Jürges
- Music
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Edited by
- Thea Eymèsz
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