The New Babylon (1929)
Overview
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina
Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean, French soldier
David Gutman
Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Sofiya Magarill
An actress
Andrei Kostrichkin
The main shop-assistant
Sergei Gerasimov
Lutro, the journalist
Yanina Zheymo
Therese, a seamstress
Arnold Arnold
Commune's Central Committee member
Boris Azarov
Soldier (uncredited)
Emil Gal
Bourgeois (uncredited)
Elena Deyneko
(uncredited)
Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier (uncredited)
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Flower girl (uncredited)
Leonid Klochkov
Commander (uncredited)
Tamara Makarova
Can-can dancer (uncredited)
Aleksandr Orlov
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