Lilac

1932 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama

4
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 242 242

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Anatole Litvak Photo
Anatole Litvak

Top cast

André Luguet Photo
André Luguet as André Lucot
Carlotta Conti Photo
Carlotta Conti as Mme. Novion
Lydie Villars Photo
Lydie Villars as La crevette
Marcelle Romée Photo
Marcelle Romée as Coeur de lilas
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772.37 MB
1280*984
French 2.0
NR
fr  
25 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 19
1.4 GB
1404*1080
French 2.0
NR
fr  
25 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 47

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by morrison-dylan-fan 9 / 10

"The creeping glove!"

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

In search of the lost Litvak works....

"Coeur de Lilas " is a worthwhile find.Its screenplay is original and its directing is often brilliant.The movie begins and ends with a military parade:in the neighborhood,brats are doing the same till one of them says he has enough with soldiers and they play cops and robbers ...just to discover a dead body on the "Fortifications" (which do not exist anymore in Paris nowadays).The "game "subject will return as Jean Gabin and his pals do a travesty of a trial and in the last pictures when one of the kids says " a cop must not be moved",actually the moral of the story.The first scenes of "Coeur de Lilas" suffer from an old-fashioned theatrical acting but as soon it takes place in the greasy spoon where Gabin and chanteuse Frehel sing "la Môme Caoutchouc" ( =rubber gal),the film hits its stride .Many of its elements would emerge again in other more famous French movies or in Litvak's future career.-The bad gal falling in love with an undercover policeman (and sighing :"I wish there were not so many cops in this world":of course she does not know his true identity)who tries to worm information out of her would be used by Pierre Chenal in his "l'Alibi" (1937) -The guinguettes down by the river Marne where Fernandel (in one of his smallest part of a best man) sings for the bride would be a permanent feature of the French film noir :see "la Belle Equipe" (1936) by Duvivier and Becker's "Casque d'Or" (1952) -The desperate lovers surrounded by a farandole ,it's already the ending of "Les Enfants du Paradis" in miniature.-The hallucinations during the heroine's running already display the director's interest in madness ("the snake pit",1946)
Reviewed by writers_reign 7 / 10

Lilac Whine

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