---
title: 'Effi Briest (1974)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder'
released: '1974-06-21'
runtime_minutes: 140
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/effi-briest-1974'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071458/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Effi Briest (1974)

1974 · 140 min · Drama · Germany


## Synopsis

Effi Briest is a 1974 West German black-and-white historical drama film directed, written and narrated by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder adapted the screenplay from German author Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel of the same name about a young 19th century woman whose affair with a charismatic womanizer has long-term effects on her marriage to an older man. The film uses Fontane's words in dialogue, narration and text of letters.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- **Screenplay:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Camille Saint-Saëns](https://cinepixo.com/people/camille-saint-saens)
- **Producer:** [Juliane Lorenz](https://cinepixo.com/people/juliane-lorenz)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dietrich Lohmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/dietrich-lohmann), [Jürgen Jürges](https://cinepixo.com/people/jurgen-jurges)
- **Editor:** [Thea Eymèsz](https://cinepixo.com/people/thea-eymesz)

## Cast

- [Irm Hermann](https://cinepixo.com/people/irm-hermann)
- [Peter Gauhe](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-gauhe)
- [Karlheinz Böhm](https://cinepixo.com/people/karlheinz-bohm)
- [Herbert Steinmetz](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-steinmetz)
- [Liselotte Eder](https://cinepixo.com/people/liselotte-eder) as Luise von Briest
- [Barbara Valentin](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-valentin)
- [Wolfgang Schenck](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-schenck) as Geert von Innstetten
- [Andrea Schober](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrea-schober)
- [Karl Scheydt](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-scheydt)
- [Hanna Schygulla](https://cinepixo.com/people/hanna-schygulla) as Effi Briest
- [Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-kwiatkowska-lass)
- [Eva Mattes](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-mattes)
- [Rudolf Lenz](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-lenz)
- [Hark Bohm](https://cinepixo.com/people/hark-bohm)
- [Ursula Strätz](https://cinepixo.com/people/ursula-stratz)

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