Milli Vanilli
Luke Korem / United States / 2023 / 106 min
From a meteoric career to tabloid tragedy. Get the untold details of the lip-synch scandal of them all in thr stranger-than-fiction account of the pop duo behind the mega-hit 'Girl You Know It's True'.
With acrobatic chest bumps, oversized shoulder pads, cheeky braids and dance moves unlike anything seen in the late 1980s, the two formerly homeless friends Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan suddenly broke through the sound barrier as the pop duo Milli Vanilli. Not least because of the music video for the song ‘Girl You Know It’s True’, which sent the two German friends to the top of the charts. But it was not quite ‘true’ – in fact, they did not actually sing on any of their songs. ‘Milli Vanilli’ unfolds the rise and fall of the pop duo and reveals the toxic alliance with famed producer Frank Farian, who sealed the fate of the two friends and hid the secret for years. Through intimate interviews with all the key players, all the layers of the Shakespearean drama are peeled back one by one. A wild but true story about the seductive and harsh realities of fame.