Maurice Rostand

Maurice Rostand

Birth : 1891-05-26, Paris, France

Death : 1968-02-21

History

French playwright and author. Most well known for his 1930 play L'Homme que j'ai tué, which he adapted from his 1925 novel of the same name.

Profile

Maurice Rostand

Movies

Frantz
Theatre Play
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.
Broken Lullaby
Theatre Play
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
A Good Little Devil
Theatre Play
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.