Liliom (1934) on Netflix
Liliom works as the barker at Madame Muscat's carousel. When he defends two women from the owner's jealousy, he loses the job, and he and Julie move into a run-down trailer.
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Plot summary
Liliom Zadowski earns his living as the barker at Madame Muscat's carousel, and the owner keeps him as her lover. A rival barker, Hollinger, tells her that Liliom flirts with the women who ride, and her jealousy turns on two customers she insults. Liliom steps in for them, so she dismisses him. He had arranged to meet both women, Julie and Marie, but he takes only Julie out, and the two of them set up house in a run-down trailer. Julie keeps them going with her job at a photo studio; Liliom loafs, drinks and quarrels violently with her. Madame Muscat later offers him a raise to come back to the carousel. He weighs it, then turns it down when he learns Julie is expecting a child.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Liliom (1934)
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- After shooting finished in early 1934, director Fritz Lang went 48 hours without sleep to finish editing Liliom so it could be shown to the producers.
- Screenwriter Robert Liebmann had been fired from Germany's Universum Film AG when it purged its Jewish staff; he fled to France and worked there on adapting Liliom.
- Fritz Lang was not fluent in French and was helped through the shoot by Gilbert Mandelik, who taught him French filmmaking translations.
- Lang annotated the screenplay with his own notes and ignored advice during filming; scenes suggested by screenwriter Bernard Zimmer were shot but cut in post-production by Lang.
- Liliom was the only French film Fritz Lang ever directed, and one of the first two French productions made by producer Erich Pommer for Fox-Europa.
