Title: Frantz
Original Title: Frantz
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: France Germany
- Length: 113 Minutes (1 hour 53 min)
- Budget: €10,000,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller History
- Studios: Mandarin Cinéma X-Filme Creative Pool
- Distributor: Golem Distribución
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: May 12 2017
- United States: March 15 2017
Plot
Just ended the World War I, Europe is divided and hatreds and twitches exist it. In a small German town, the young Anna goes every day to mourn over the Frantz's grave, her fiancé, who was killed in France during the war. During one of the days in which Anna visits the grave of her lover, she meets a mysterious French man laying flowers on the grave of the deceased. The young man, named Adrien, he says that he met Frantz during the war and they had been close friends. Adrien's presence untie completely unpredictable reactions at the site, a French man is not well seen in the defeated Germany of the interwar period, especially when the young Adrien has traveled to Germany keeping a secret about Frantz. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker François Ozon ('In the House', 'Young & Beautiful') and starring Pierre Niney ('A Perfect Man') and Paula Beer ('Four Kings').
Cast
Director:
Adrien
Anna
Magda
Hoffmeister
Kreutz
Frantz
Adrien's mother
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Trivia
New Romy Schneider?
The 21-years-old German actress Paula Beer was about to debut in the French film 'Diplomacy', directed by Volker Schlöndorff, but eventually she was cut in the final edition. With 'Frantz' is her film debut in French cinema. Ozon was looking for an actress who looked like Romy Schneider and he chose Beer to the delicate melancholy she conveys.
French style pronunciation
In German, the titular name is usually spelled "Franz". The film's title, "Frantz", is a frequent misspelling by French speakers, so the title serves as a nod to the fact that the titular character is supposed to be a francophile and therefore he might have preferred that spelling, not to mention it sounds similar to "France".
French film with German language
This is the second adaptation of François Ozon in co-production with Germany, the first was 'Water Drops on Burning Rocks' in 2000. However, 'Frantz' is the first film by French director shot in German language.
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