Frantz (film)

Frantz is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by François Ozon and starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney. It is about a young German woman whose fiancé has been killed in World War I and the French soldier who comes bearing a secret about her fiancé. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, where Beer won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. At the 42nd César Awards, Frantz was nominated in eleven categories, winning one for Best Cinematography.

Frantz
Film poster
Directed byFrançois Ozon
Screenplay by
  • François Ozon
  • Philippe Piazzo
Based onBroken Lullaby
by Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by
  • Éric Altmayer
  • Nicolas Altmayer
  • Stefan Arndt
  • Uwe Schott
Starring
  • Pierre Niney
  • Paula Beer
CinematographyPascal Marti
Edited byLaure Gardette
Music byPhilippe Rombi
Distributed byMars Films (France)
Release dates
  • 12 July 2016 (2016-07-12) (Paris premiere)
  • 7 September 2016 (2016-09-07) (France)
  • 29 September 2016 (2016-09-29) (Germany)
Running time
113 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Germany
Languages
  • French
  • German
Budget$11.1 million
Box office$6.3 million

Frantz is a loose adaptation of the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch film Broken Lullaby, which in turn was based on Maurice Rostand's 1930 French play L'homme que j'ai tué.

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