Fontane Effi Briest [Digitally Remastered Edition]

[Machine Translation] Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the standard-bearers of the "New German Cinema" along with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, and left behind 44 films in his mere 37 years of life, which greatly influenced future generations of filmmakers. The long-awaited first domestic release of the master version! The film is about Effie, the free-spirited daughter of an aristocrat, who is bewitched by Baron Innstetten, who is 20 years her senior, and marries her. The hard-nosed and career-minded Innstetten tries to discipline her, but she is always away from home. Unable to adjust to life in the countryside, Effie has an affair with her husband's out-of-the-box friend, Major Krampus. Several years later, when Innstetten learns of his wife's and friend's betrayal, he challenges Krampus to a duel... A digitally remastered, delicate and beautiful black-and-white film depicting a woman who questioned and worried about society and virtue in the patriarchal society of the late 19th century, while also continuing to feel uncomfortable with her own path. The film is digitally remastered in beautiful black-and-white. For Fassbinder, this is an important literary film along with his later Berlin Alexanderplatz ('80). The heroine is played by Fassbinder's longtime muse, Hanna Sigla, in this adaptation of one of Germany's most famous realist novels of the 19th century. This is one of Fassbinder's most famous films. Commentary booklet and postcard included!

Special Feature / Bonus Track: bonus video footage

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ヴィム・ヴェンダース、ヴェルナー・ヘルツォークらと並ぶ、「ニュー・ジャーマン・シネマ」の旗手であり、僅か37年の生涯で44本の映画作品を遺し、後世の映画人に多大な影響を与えた夭折の鬼才、ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー監督のキャリア中期の傑作を、最新マスターで待望の国内初ソフト化! ──20歳も年上のインシュテッテン男爵に見初められて結婚した、自由奔放な貴族の娘エフィ。堅物で出世欲の強いインシュテッテンはエフィを躾けようとする上、彼女を残し留守にしてばかり。田舎町の生活に馴染むことができないエフィは、常識にとらわれない夫の友人クランパス少佐と浮気をしてしまう。数年後、妻と友人の裏切りを知ったインシュテッテンは、クランパスに決闘を申し込むのだが・・・。19世紀後半の家父長制度のなかで、社会や美徳について問い、悩み、そして自らの道にも違和感を抱き続けながら生きたひとりの女性の姿を、デジタルリマスターされた繊細で美しいモノクロ映像で描く。ファスビンダーにとっては後年の『ベルリン・アレクサンダー広場』 (80)にならぶ重要な文学映画。ヒロインを演じるのは長年にわたるファスビンダーのミューズ、ハンナ・シグラ。19世紀ドイツを代表するリアリズム小説の映画化。ファスビンダー屈指の名編。解説ブックレット&ポストカードを封入!

映像特典: 短編『都会の放浪者』 (Der Stadtstreicher) 1966年/西ドイツ/モノクロ/約10分、短編『小カオス』 (Das kleine Chaos) 1967年/西ドイツ/モノクロ/約9分