Backlit decorative surface, particularly for the interior finishing of motor vehicles

A Planar decorative material (11) comprising perforations (12), for interior fittings, in particular for the automobile industry, which decorative material serves to be illuminated on the rearward face (13) thereof, by an illumination means (18), and allows a portion of the light from the illumination means (18) to pass from the rear face (13) of the decorative material (11), through the perforations (12), to the visible side (14) of the decorative material (11), wherein a film (20) is adhesively bonded to the rear face (13) of the decorative material (11) and the perforations (12) extend from the rear face (13) of the decorative material (11) as far as the visible side (14) thereof, but not through the film (20), and,

• a. the film (20) is transparent or translucent, and,
• b. the film (20) is a hot-melt adhesive film, an adhesive film that is activatable under a temperature and/or pressure increase, or a thermoplastic adhesive film, and,
• c. the film (20) can be pre-laminated onto the rear face (13) of the decorative material (11) under the application conditions for the prefixing, specifically increasing the temperature to a temperature T1 that is less than a temperature T2, and/or a first pressure increase to a pressure p1 that is lower than or equal to a pressure p2, and the film can then be permanently adhesively bonded by an increase to the temperature T2 and/or the pressure p2.