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.
- Genre: History, Drama
- Studio: Tango Film
- Keyword: adultery, naivety, berlin, germany, becoming an adult, age difference, way of life, life planning, northern germany, duel, single father, baltic sea, new german cinema
- Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Strätz