Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
Directed by Gustaf Gründgens
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Cast
Marianne Hoppe
Effi Briest
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Baron von Instetten
Paul Hartmann
Major a.D. von Crampas
Max Gülstorff
Dr. Alonzo Gieshübler
Paul Bildt
Herr von Briest
Käthe Haack
Luise von Briest
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Marietta Tripelli
Hans Leibelt
Ministerialrat Wüllersdorf
Gisela von Collande
Afra
Renée Stobrawa
Roswitha
Erich Dunskus
Kruse
Flora Berthold
Hulda
Ursula Voß
Herta
Ursula Friese
Berta
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