
Boule de Suif
For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute
A 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...
Cast

Vsevolod Yakut
Narrator (1955 release)

Galina Sergeyeva
Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)

Tatyana Okunevskaya
Mme Carré-Lamadon

Mikhail Mukhin
Count de Bréville

Sofya Levitina
elderly nun

Karl Gurnyak
german soldier

Andrey Fayt
prussian officer

Anatoli Goryunov
Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant

Faina Ranevskaya
Mme. Loiseau

Pyotr Repnin
Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant