Fontane - Effi Briest oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen (1974)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.2/10   

Réalisateur:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer)
Theodor Fontane (novel)

Release Date:

16 juin 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house...

Plot Keywords:

Duel | Lapsed Catholic | Affair | Revenge | Lawyer

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Woman's Heart

Ensemble

Hanna Schygulla	...	Effi Briest / von Instetten
Wolfgang Schenck	...	Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel	...	Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit	...	Louise Briest, Mutter
Herbert Steinmetz	...	Herr Briest, Vater
Ursula Strätz	...	Roswitha, Kindermädchen
Irm Hermann	...	Johanna, Haushälterin
Karlheinz Böhm	...	Geheimrat Wüllersdorf (as Karl-Heinz Böhm)
Karl Scheydt	...	Kruse
Barbara Lass	...	Polnische Köchin
Rudolf Lenz	...	Geheimrat Rummschüttel
Andrea Schober	...	Annie von Instetten, Tochter
Eva Mattes	...	Hulda
Theo Tecklenburg	...	Pastor Niemeyer
An Dorthe Braker	...	Frau Pasche (as Anndorthe Braker)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Effi Briest (Australia)
Fontane Effi Briest
Effi Briest (France) [fr]

Durée:

Germany:140 min | USA:135 min

Pays:

West Germany

Langue:

Allemand

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | West Germany:12

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Company:

Tango Film

Anecdotes:

The complete title of the film is one of the longest titles (if not the longest) in film history: "Fontane Effi Briest oder viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und ihren Bedürfnissen und trotzdem das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen"

Guillemet:

Effi Briest: He was as noble as one who doesn't know true love can be.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Free Rainer (2007)

A Woman's Heart

Maybe Theodor Fontane does not belong to the outstanding writers of world literature (he would be too provincial for the whole wide world perhaps), but nevertheless, his poetic realism and his sophisticated powers of observation lead his stories to a deep, often radical criticism of social conventions.

That's probably the reason why Fassbinder adopted Fontane's most famous novel "Effi Briest" - to tell the story from the writer's very point of view, as far as possible and to make the social mechanisms of oppression and the assimilation of the individual to that obvious. His concern is already pointed out in the exceptionally long title of the film, which I can imagine is the longest in history and translates something like this: Fontane – Effi Briest or: Many who have a notion of their abilities and needs and nevertheless accept the current regime in their minds through their deeds and therefore stabilize and pretty much affirm it

The atmosphere of coldness, of distance (which is, thanks to Fassbinder, at times really excruciating), of alienation is thematised through the cinematic techniques: mirror shots of the actors with a sometimes very blurred camera, misalignment of the camera by statues, flowers or curtains, cross-fades of dialogues and blindingly white fade-outs which sometimes abruptly interrupts a scene. In this sense, Fassbinder tightened Fontane's criticism to a maximum, but he wouldn't be Fassbinder otherwise.