Lilo Pempeit

Effi Briest tells of a seventeen-year-old girl who is married off by her parents to a wealthy Baron more than twice her age. Lonely and dissatisfied, she seeks solace in the companionship of her husband's friend, Major Crampas.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany's most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled.

A transgender woman attempts to salvage her life, devastated by love, by confronting her tormented past. She seeks acceptance from former acquaintances and, crucially, from herself.