Lilac

1932 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama

4
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 256 256

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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 8
1.4 GB
1404*1080
French 2.0
NR
fr  
25 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ricardojorgeramalho 6 / 10

A Policeman's Duty

A curious film directed in 1932 by Anatole Litvak, a Ukrainian Jew from Kyiv, who studied in St. Petersburg and collaborated on seven Russian films in the 1920s. However, he began his career, as a director, in 1930 in Germany, also making films in France, England, and the United States, where he emigrated in the late 1930s. He married Hollywood star Miriam Hopkins, though the marriage lasted only two years. He worked with the biggest stars of his time, before and after the war, both in Europe and the United States, and was responsible for the international popularity of Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, the protagonists of his 1936 film Mayerling.Coeur de Lilas is the first film he directed in France, after three productions in Germany, making it a work from the beginning of Litvak's career. However, it features stars like Jean Gabin and Fernandel, albeit in surprising supporting roles, as the protagonists are Marcelle Romée, an actress who appeared in only four films, all in 1931 and 1932, and André Luguet, this one with a much longer career, lasting until his death in the late 1970s.It's a crime film about a homicide investigation in the criminal neighborhoods of Paris, in cheap boarding houses, among prostitutes and their lovers. Unfortunately, this social aspect, which would be interesting to analyze, ends up resting on a banal melodrama, a struggle between love and duty.
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)
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