Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth. With Julia Jentsch, Sebastian Koch, Juliane Köhler. Based on the novel of Theodor Fontane published in 1894.
Effi Briest is a young girl from a noble family. She married a baron who’s twice her age and had once courted her mother. The marriage was not happy and she fell in love with her husband’s friend. The affair ended tragically.
A disappointing film. Boring. I haven’t got chance to watch the Fassbinder 1974 version, but from the reviews it seems the old one is much better.
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