Boule de Suif
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Release: 1934-09-15
·Runtime: 64m
·★ 6.1
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Galina Sergeyeva
as Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
Andrey Fayt
as prussian officer
Anatoli Goryunov
as Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
Sofya Levitina
as elderly nun
Karl Gurnyak
as german soldier
Faina Ranevskaya
as Mme. Loiseau
Pyotr Repnin
as Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
Tatyana Okunevskaya
as Mme Carré-Lamadon
Vsevolod Yakut
as Narrator (1955 release)
