Cinema: Milli Vanilli film has its world premiere in Munich

It started 35 years ago München the story of Milli Vanilli – now a film about the scandalous band is celebrating its world premiere there. This Monday (7:30 p.m.) director Simon Verhoeven (“Männerherzen”), who also wrote the script for the film, presents his view of what is probably the biggest fraud scandal in music history. The title of the film is that of the biggest hit by “Rob” and “Fab”, who became global stars without singing themselves: “Girl You Know It’s True”.

The Boney M. producer had millions of records Frank Farian discovered duo sold and even received a Grammy – but only temporarily. Because after Farian announced that the two boys had never sung their hits like “I’m Gonna Miss You” themselves, but had only moved their lips to the voices of others, an outcry went through the music world.

In his film, Verhoeven tells of the beginnings of the two friends Robert “Rob” Pilatus and Fabrice “Fab” Morvan as dancers in Munich clubs, of their meteoric rise, the exhilarating success and hard collision with the facts.

“Fab”, who was invited as a guest to the world premiere in Munich, now works as a singer and songwriter in real life and has four children, is played in the film by Elan Ben Ali; his friend “Rob”, who died in 1998 and was buried in Munich, by Tijan Njie. Matthias Schweighöfer plays Frank Farian. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on December 21st.

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