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Lilac

Name: Lilac
Released: 1932
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Marcelle Romee, André Luguet, Fréhel, Jean Gabin, Lydie Villars

Cœur de Lilas

📅 1932 ⭐ 5.9 🕐 1h 30m

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Crime

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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