Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.

Marianne Hoppe
Effi Briest

Karl Ludwig Diehl
Baron von Instetten

Paul Hartmann
Major a.D. von Crampas

Max Gülstorff
Dr. Alonzo Gieshübler

Paul Bildt
Herr von Briest

Käthe Haack
Luise von Briest

Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Marietta Tripelli

Hans Leibelt
Ministerialrat Wüllersdorf

Gisela von Collande
Afra

Renée Stobrawa
Roswitha

Erich Dunskus
Kruse
Flora Berthold
Hulda
Ursula Voß
Herta
Ursula Friese
Berta

Margarete Schön
Frau von Padden