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Lilac (1932)

Lilac (1932)

Crime
Release Date: 1932, March 13
Directors: Anatole Litvak
Countries: France
Production: Fifra
Cast: Fernandel, Paul Amiot, Jean Gabin, André Luguet, Marcel Delaître, Georges Paulais, Fréhel, Pierre Labry, Madeleine Guitty, Lydie Villars, Marcelle Romee, Fordyce

Overview:

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.