Boule de Suif (1934)
Synopsis
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...
Release Date: 1934-09-15
Runtime: 64 minutes
Director: Mikhail Romm
Top Cast
- Galina Sergeyeva as Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
- Andrey Fayt as prussian officer
- Anatoli Goryunov as Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
- Faina Ranevskaya as Mme. Loiseau
- Pyotr Repnin as Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
- Tatyana Okunevskaya as Mme Carré-Lamadon
- Mikhail Mukhin as Count de Bréville
- Yevgeniya Mezentseva as Countess
- Sofya Levitina as elderly nun
- Nina Sukhotskaya as young nun
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