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Lilac
Release Date: March 13, 1932
Year | : | 1932 |
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Genres | : | Crime |
Production Companies | : | Fifra |
Director | : | Anatole Litvak |
Producers | : | |
Writers | : | Anatole Litvak, Serge Veber, Dorothy Farnum, Tristan Bernard, Charles-Henry Hirsch |
RunTime | : | 90 mins. |
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consorting with the criminal scum of Paris. Lilac falls in love with a handsome detective (Andre Luguet), but he doesn't let his emotions stand in the way of his duty, and in the end he reluctantly turns her over to the authorities. At $120,000, Coeur de Lilas was one of the most expensive movies to come out of France in 1931, but it more than made back its cost at the box-office.
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