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At the time, Mr. Fassbinder, a contemporary of filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, was shooting "Effi Briest," an adaptation of a 19th-century novel about desire and repression in the Bismarck era.
Taking a Relic Over the Moon Steve Dollar 2011
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Both are girls whom Hollywood might have found no difficulty in casting—Ingrid Bergman for Lena, Audrey Hepburn for Effi.
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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Though cool to the point of chilly, this quartet may go places Effi Briest and Telepathe never did.
This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010
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There is no doubt about Lena; she is a good German who worked in a hospital during the war and helped to save Jews—as did John Russell's film-star lover Effi in "Stettin Station" 2010.
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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Effie Briest (1974) - Effi (Hanna Schygulla) is a precocious 17-year-old girl who, with the approval of her parents, agrees to marry an older count, Baron Geert Von Instetten (Wolfgang Schenk).
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Unhappy in her new home and longing for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with an army major that soon turns romantic.
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Unhappy in her new home and longing for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with an army major that soon turns romantic.
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In French novels, adultery is a necessary escape (think Madame Bovary), in German novels it is a way of subverting rules that is inevitably doomed to failure (think Effi Briest), in Russian novels it is claustrophobia and tragedy (think Anna Karenina), and in American novels, if Colwin is anything to go by, its epicenter is to be found in overwhelming guilt.
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Effie Briest (1974) -- Effi (Hanna Schygulla) is a precocious 17-year-old girl who, with the approval of her parents, agrees to marry an older count, Baron Geert Von Instetten (Wolfgang Schenk).
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It's a bleak, chilly story, but "Effi Briest" is formally dazzling (mirrors and frames are a thematic element) and absorbing.
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