In Quedlinburg, Germany, 1919, Anna, a German woman (Paula Beer) grieving over the death of her fiancé, Walter 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 Walter'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 drives Adrien away. Adrien tells Hans, "You are right. I am a murderer." Anna meets Adrien, and invites him to the Hoffmeister home. She tells the Hoffmeisters that Adrien was leaving flowers at Walter's grave, and they relent. Around the dinner table, upon questioning, Adrien says that he and Walter were students together in Paris. He describes their last day together, when they visited the Louvre. Anna shows Adrien the places she and Walter 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 Walter's violin for them, as Walter used to do. Adrien asks Anna to go to the ball with him, and she accepts. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Drama, History, War |
Country: | France, Germany |
Produced By: | Uwe Schott, Stefan Arndt, Andreas Grosch, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Ulli Neumann |
Directed By: | François Ozon |
Written By: | François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo |
Cast: | Claire Martin, Torsten Michaelis, Cyrielle Clair, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Jeanne Ferron, Johann Von Bülow, Jean-Pol Brissart, Ralf Dittrich, Ernst Stötzner, Michael Witte, Merlin Rose, Camille Grandville, Zimsky, Paula Beer, Rainer Egger, Lutz Blochberger, Alice De Lencquesaing, Nicolas Bonnefoy, Jean-Paul Dubois, Elisabeth Mazev, Eliott Margueron, Axel Wandtke, Anton Von Lucke, Louis-Charles Sirjacq, Marie Gruber, Pierre Niney, Étienne Ménard, Rainer Silberschneider |
In Theaters: | Mar 15, 2017 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
Production: | Mandarin Films, X-Filme Creative Pool, FOZ |
Box Office: | $880,474 |