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Boule de Suif (1934)
Directed by Mikhail Romm
Overview
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…
Length 64 minutes
Actors
Galina Sergeyeva | Andrey Fayt | Anatoli Goryunov | Faina Ranevskaya | Pyotr Repnin | Tatyana Okunevskaya | Mikhail Mukhin | Evgenia Mezentseva | Sofya Levitina | Nina Sukhotskaya | Vladimir Lavrinovich | Karl Gurnyak | Valentina Kuznetsova