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[PAST EVENT] Filmserie: "Effi Briest" (1974, by Fassbinder)
February 21, 2012
7:30pm - 9pm
"Effi Briest" (also known as "Fontane Effi Briest") is a 1974 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from German author Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel of the same name.
The setting is a handsome old country house outside Berlin in the 1890's, the home of a well-to-do upper-middle-class businessman, his wife and their seventeen-year-old daughter, Effi Briest. When the somewhat older Baron von Instetten, whom Effi doesn't know, asks for her hand, Effi is as happy as her ambitious mother. Several days before the wedding, though, she is apprehensive. She and her mother are taking the air, walking across a field of untended grass, when Effi stops short. "The baron," she says, "is a man of firm principles." Her mother agrees, pleased that a seventeen-year-old might grasp such a point. Effi, desolate for the briefest of moments, adds, "I have none at all."
The film describes the decline and fall of Effi Briest after she has flouted convention not out of passion but boredom and whim?
The setting is a handsome old country house outside Berlin in the 1890's, the home of a well-to-do upper-middle-class businessman, his wife and their seventeen-year-old daughter, Effi Briest. When the somewhat older Baron von Instetten, whom Effi doesn't know, asks for her hand, Effi is as happy as her ambitious mother. Several days before the wedding, though, she is apprehensive. She and her mother are taking the air, walking across a field of untended grass, when Effi stops short. "The baron," she says, "is a man of firm principles." Her mother agrees, pleased that a seventeen-year-old might grasp such a point. Effi, desolate for the briefest of moments, adds, "I have none at all."
The film describes the decline and fall of Effi Briest after she has flouted convention not out of passion but boredom and whim?
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