Frantz

Frantz

Anna and Franz lived in an idyll ... until the beginning of the First World War. But the boy was sent to fight on the French front. The action of the picture itself takes place after the end of the war. A German woman visits the grave of her fiancé every day, who still died in France. One day, she meets a certain Frenchman, Adrien, who also brought flowers to her lover's grave. The appearance of Adrien radically changes the heroine's life... It turns out that he was a friend of Franz, despite his nationality. What happened in France and how will the fate of the main characters turn out? Read more The film is based on the plot from Ernst Lyubich's painting of the early 1930s, "Unsung Lullaby". German actress Paula Beer ("Ludwig of Bavaria" (2012), "Dark Valley" (2014)) and French actor Pierre Ninet ("LOL" (2008), "Romantics Anonymous" (2010), "Yves Saint Laurent" (2014)) played the main roles in this film. The film was directed by François Ozon. Previously, he worked on such projects as "8 Women" (2001), "Pool" (2002) and "In the House" (2012). The premiere of the film took place on September 3, 2016, simultaneously at the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Telluride International Film Festival in the USA. In Venice, the painting won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize.