Paula Beer
Paula Beer is a German actress. She first became known as a teenager by her main role in Chris Kraus's 2010 film Poll. Her breakthrough was in 2016, when she starred in François Ozon's Frantz, for which she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award, for best young performer, at the... Read full bio →
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Frantz
2016
Miroirs No. 3
After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.
Roter Himmel
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.
Undine
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Le chant du loup
In the near future, a French submarine finds itself in a crisis situation.
Werk ohne Autor
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Transit
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
Frantz
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
4 Könige
Christmas is approaching, and with it, desire for harmony, beauty, light, and hope.
Diplomatie
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate explosives throughout the capital, Swedish consul Raoul Nordling uses diplomacy in a desperate bid to convince him to defy the orders and save Paris.
Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and things she had forgotten: What did her grandfather really do before he went to war?
Poll
In 1914 on a family estate, Oda (Paula Beer) helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.