Frantz (film)

For films with a similar title, see Franz (disambiguation).

Frantz
Film poster
Directed byFrançois Ozon
Screenplay by
  • François Ozon
  • Philippe Piazzo
Based onBroken Lullaby
by Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by
Starring
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[1]

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,[2] where Beer won the Marcello Mastroianni Award.[3] At the 42nd César Awards, Frantz was nominated in eleven categories, winning one for Best Cinematography.[4]

Frantz is a loose adaptation of the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch film Broken Lullaby,[5] which in turn was based on Maurice Rostand's 1930 French play L'homme que j'ai tué.

  1. ^ "Frantz". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  2. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (28 July 2016). "Venice Film Festival: Lido To Launch Pics From Ford, Gibson, Malick & More As Awards Season Starts To Buzz – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (11 September 2016). "Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion To 'The Woman Who Left'; Tom Ford's 'Nocturnal Animals', Emma Stone Take Major Prizes – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Annonce des Nominations pour les César 2017". César Awards (in French). Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. 25 January 2017. Archived from the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  5. ^ Holden, Stephen (14 March 2017). "Review: 'Frantz,' a Mysterious Frenchman and the Wounds of War". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2018.