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Franz

Franz

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 7, 1972

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

61%

Original Title

Franz

Production Companies

Ciné Vog Films, Showking Films, Les Productions Belles Rives

Director

Jacques Brel

Description

In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?