When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Hanna Schygulla
as Effi Briest
Wolfgang Schenck
as Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel
as Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit
as Frau Briest
Herbert Steinmetz
as Herr Briest
Ursula Strätz
as Roswitha
Irm Hermann
as Johanna
Karlheinz Böhm
as Wullersdorf
Karl Scheydt
as Kruse
Barbara Lass
as Köchin
Rudolf Lenz
as Geheimrat Rummschüttel
Andrea Schober
as Annie
