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.
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
Margarete Schön
Frau von Padden
Jac Diehl
Gast beim Fest
Alfred Karen
Gast bei Tripellis Gesangsvortrag
Alexander Kökert
Besucher beim Landrat
Bert Schmidt-Moris
Page im Kurhotel
Tina Schneider
Doddy Grützmacher
Babsi Schultz-Reckewell
Annie Briest
Maria Seidler
Frau Konsul Grützmacher
Crew
Gustaf Gründgens
Director, Executive Producer
Georg C. Klaren
Writer
Eckart von Naso
Writer
Theodor Fontane
Novel
Johanna Schmidt
Editor
Ewald Daub
Director of Photography
Ulrich Erfurth
Assistant Director
Rudolf Schaad
Assistant Director
Franz Koehn
Production Design
Traugott Müller
Production Design, Costume Design
Gustav Bellers
Sound
Mark Lothar
Original Music Composer
Willi Herrmann
Production Manager
Günter Regenberg
Production Manager
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