Set in Budapest, this is a movie adaptation of the play of the same name (later adapted into the more well known 1950's musical "Carousel") about the doomed love affair between a carousel barker and young woman that ends in tragedy when he gets involved in an ill-conceived robbery. He dies and after some time in the afterlife, is given a brief chance to make amends with the love he left behind.
Liliom
Film
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British...
Cast Members of Liliom
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Charles Boyer
as Liliom Zadowski
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Madeleine Ozeray
as Julie Boulard
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Robert Arnoux
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Roland Toutain
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Alexandre Rignault
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Henri Richard
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Odette Barencey
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Raoul Marco
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Antonin Artaud
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Léon Arvel
Story by:
Adaptation
Adapted From
Liliom
Liliom is a 1909 play by Ferenc Molnár. It was very famous in its own right during the early to mid-twentieth century, but is best known today as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
The play takes place partly in Budapest, Hungary, and partly in Heaven. The story concerns...