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Effi Briest

Effi Briest

Rainer Werner Fassbinder · 1974 · Film

A haunting portrait of a woman destroyed by rigid social convention and male betrayal. Fassbinder's austere adaptation captures the suffocating tragedy of a life governed by duty rather than desire.

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