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.

• Tango Film
• Hanna Schygulla
• Wolfgang Schenck
• Ulli Lommel
• Lilo Pempeit
• Herbert Steinmetz
• Ursula Strätz
• Irm Hermann
• Karlheinz Böhm