A look at the fallout of WWI. Year 2017 Video Release 2017-06-13 Studio Music Box Films Genre Drama MPAA Rating PG-13 CARA thematic elements including brief war violence Color Color Runtime 113 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, 1914-1918 , Frantz recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's lost generation Anna 21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance , a bereft young German woman whose fiance, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent , a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz s grave. Adrien's presence is met with resistance by the small community still reeling from Germany s defeat, yet Anna gradually gets closer to the handsome and melancholy young man, as she learns of his deep friendship with Frantz, conjured up in evocative flashbacks. What follows is a surprising exploration of how Ozon's characters wrestle with their conflicting feelings survivor's guilt, anger at one's losses, the overriding desire for happiness despite everything that has come before, and the longing for sexual, romantic and familial attachments. Ozon drew his inspiration from Ernst Lubitsch s 1932 drama Broken Lullaby, with stunning visual references to painter Caspar David Friedrich. Director Francois Ozon Cast Francois Ozon; Pierre Niney; Paula Beer; Ernst Stotzner; Marie Gruber; Johann von Bulow; Anton von Lucke; Cyrielle Clair; Alice de Lencquesaing; Axel Wandtke; Rainer Egger