Girl You Know It's True
(2023)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 140 votes
Year: 2023
Runtime: 124 мин
Country: France, Germany
Director: Симон Ферхоэвен
Cast: Elan Ben Ali, Tijan Njie, Маттиас Швайгхёфер, Грэм Роджерс, Белла Дэйн, Nico Ehrenteit, Sebastian Kempf, David Baalcke, Ульрике Арнольд, Roxanne Rittmann
Plot
The rise and fall of Milli Vanilli, a studio group assembled by German producer Frank Farian and fronted by nightclub dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. After a string of worldwide hit singles, awards and performances, it was revealed that the duo never sang a note of their songs, leading to one of the biggest scandals in music history.
The film set around the true story of the notorious scandal involving dancers Robert Pilatus' and Fabrice Morvan's rise to fame in the late 1980s as pop sensation Milli Vanilli. Orchestrated it in Germany by the music producer Frank Farian, they became global stars with three No. 1 hits in the USA. But only a small circle of insiders knew that the duo was not singing but lip syncing to the voices of two other artists, John Davis and Brad Howell. At the height of their fame, Milli Vanilli won the Grammy Award but the situation behind the scenes escalated and the pressure on Pilatus and Morvan grew not only in their confrontation against Farian to sing using their own voices, but the excesses of fame and the Pilatus' drug addiction. When the truth was finally revealed, they went into the abyss while the world witnessed one of the biggest scandals in music history. Trying to find their own place in music and claiming to be true singers, Pilatus and Morvan's friendship is put in danger while their fame turns in infamy and in a con that their fans cannot forgive.