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A Promise
Why this pick
A restrained pre-war European romance built from letters, absences and longing; its elegant period textures and delicate emotional withholding closely suit Frantz.
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MOVIE2016 1h 53m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Quedlinburg, Germany, in 1919, Anna, a German woman (Paula Beer) grieving over the death of her fiancé, Frantz Hoffmeister, in World War I, leaves flowers at his grave. She sees Adrien (Pierre Niney), a Frenchman, also leave flowers at his grave. Adrien goes to the home of Frantz's parents, Dr. Hans and Magda Hoffmeister, and tries to speak to Hans, but when Hans hears that Adrien is French, he tells Adrien that a Frenchman killed his son and, calling the French murderers, drives Adrien away. Adrien tells Hans, "You are right. I am a murderer". Anna meets Adrien and invites him to the Hoffmeister home. After she tells the Hoffmeisters that Adrien was leaving flowers at Frantz's grave, they relent. Around the dinner table, upon questioning, Adrien says that he and Frantz were students together in Paris. He describes their last day together, when they visited the Louvre. In the flashbacks, there is a strong suggestion that the two were lovers. Anna shows Adrien the places she and Frantz used to go together, and the mountaintop where he asked her to marry him. Adrien lifts Anna (and the Hoffmeisters) out of their despair. The Hoffmeisters ask Adrien, who was a first violinist in Paris before the war, to play Frantz's violin for them, as Frantz used to do. Adrien asks Anna to go to the ball with him and she accepts.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Paula Beer
Anna
Pierre Niney
Adrien Rivoire
Ernst Stötzner
Doctor Hoffmeister
Johann von Bülow
Kreutz
Anton von Lucke
Frantz Hoffmeister
Cyrielle Clair
Adrien's Mother
Rainer Egger
German Cemetery Caretaker
Merlin Rose
Young Drunk