Boule de Suif (1934)

6.2/10 64 min Drama

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...

Cast

Galina Sergeyeva

Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)

Andrey Fayt

prussian officer

Anatoli Goryunov

Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant

Faina Ranevskaya

Mme. Loiseau

Pyotr Repnin

Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant

Tatyana Okunevskaya

Mme Carré-Lamadon

Mikhail Mukhin

Count de Bréville

Sofya Levitina

elderly nun

Karl Gurnyak

german soldier

Vsevolod Yakut

Narrator (1955 release)

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