Boule de Suif
1934 · 64 min
Drama
★ 6.2A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
Crew
- Director Mikhail Romm
- Writer Mikhail Romm
- Director of Photography Boris Volchek
Cast
Galina Sergeyeva
Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
Andrey Fayt
prussian officer
Anatoli Goryunov
Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
Faina Ranevskaya
Mme. Loiseau
Pyotr Repnin
Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
Tatyana Okunevskaya
Mme Carré-Lamadon
Mikhail Mukhin
Count de Bréville
- Y
Yevgeniya Mezentseva
Countess
Sofya Levitina
elderly nun
- N
Nina Sukhotskaya
young nun
- V
Vladimir Lavrinovich
Mr. Cornudet
Karl Gurnyak
german soldier
Crew
- Director — Mikhail Romm
- Writer — Mikhail Romm
- Director of Photography — Boris Volchek
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