Effi Briest
Summary: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi...
Release Date: June 16, 1977
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: Not Rated
Production: Tango Film
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 750,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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