:02:02
In front of the Briests'
manor in Hohen-Cremmen...
:02:05
the famiIy seat since the time
of EIector Georg WiIheIm...
:02:08
the viIIage street Iay stiII,
bathed in the midday sun.
:02:12
On the park side,
a wing buiIt on at right angIes...
:02:16
cast a broad shadow
on a white-and-green chequered path...
:02:20
and on a Iarge, round fIower bed
with a sundiaI in the middIe...
:02:24
and Canna indica and rhubarb
around its edge.
:02:31
Effi, you should have become
an equestrian artiste.
:02:34
Always on the trapeze, an aerial spirit!
:02:37
l do believe you would enjoy it.
:02:40
Perhaps, Mama.
:02:42
But then who would be to blame?
:02:44
Whom do l take after if not you?
:02:47
Or do you think Papa?
:02:49
You have to laugh yourself.
:02:52
Why don't you make a lady out of me, then?
:02:56
Would you like that?
:02:57
No.
:02:59
No.
:03:01
Don't be so boisterous, Effi!
Not so impetuous!
:03:04
lt worries me when l see you like this.
:03:08
A STORY OF RENUNClATlON
:03:09
lS NEVER AMlSS.
:03:13
Baron lnnstetten was not even 20...
:03:15
when he was garrisoned over there
with the Rathenow regiment...
:03:19
and was on friendly terms
with the local landowners.
:03:22
He especially liked to visit
my grandfather's estate in Schwantikow.
:03:26
Not because of grandfather, of course.
:03:31
When Mama talks about it...
:03:33
it's obvious for whom he came...
:03:37
and l think the feeling was mutual.
:03:39
What happened then?
:03:42
Everything took its natural course...
:03:45
as it always does.
:03:46
He was still so very young.
:03:49
Then father came along.
:03:51
He was already in the council of nobles
and owned Hohen-Cremmen...
:03:55
and she accepted him without more ado...
:03:58
and became Frau von Briest.