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').
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Trivia
Insipired by Haneke and Kazan
François Ozon recommended his actors who watched 'The White Ribbo' by Michael Haneke and 'Splendor in the Gras' by Elia Kazan to create the necessary atmosphere for the film.
Chain Adaptations
'Frantz' is a new version of 'Broken Lullaby', directed by Ernst Lubitsch in 1932, which was, in turn, adapted from a play by Maurice Rostand, published in 1930. However, Ozon wanted to give a new perspective. Instead of focusing on the French soldier, he wanted the look was promised the young German girl with the deceased fiancé.
Venice Film Festival
The film, directed by François Ozon, was selected in Venice Film Festival (2016) and it was awarded with Best New Female Acting to Paula Beer.
Soundtrack from 'Frantz'
Paris
Compuesta por
Charles Goldblatt
Interpretada por
Orchestre Symphonique Bel'Arte
Quatuor à cordes N° 1, op. 11, II Andante cantabile
Compuesta por
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Interpretada por
Borodin Quartet
Une amitié
Interpretada por
Orchestre Symphonique Bel'Arte
La promenade
Interpretada por
Orchestre Symphonique Bel'Arte
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2022
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2018
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2006
8.5
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote