The New Babylon (1929)
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.
Directors: Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev.
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Yelena Kuzmina as Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant |
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Pyotr Sobolevsky as Jean, French soldier |
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David Gutman as Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop |
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Sofiya Magarill as An actress |
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Andrei Kostrichkin as The main shop-assistant |
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Sergei Gerasimov as Lutro, the journalist |
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Yanina Zheymo as Therese, a seamstress |
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Arnold Arnold as Commune's Central Committee member |
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Boris Azarov as Soldier (uncredited) |
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Bernshtein as Friko (uncredited) |
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Iraida Vinogradova as (uncredited) |
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Emil Gal as Bourgeois (uncredited) |
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A. Glushkova as Washerwoman (uncredited) |
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S. Gusev as Poirier, an old man (uncredited) |
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Elena Deyneko as (uncredited) |
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Oleg Zhakov as National Guard's soldier (uncredited) |
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Anna Zarzhitskaya as Flower girl (uncredited) |
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Leonid Klochkov as Commander (uncredited) |
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Tamara Makarova as Can-can dancer (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Orlov as "Menelay" (uncredited) |
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Ida Penzo as Lady at the ball (uncredited) |
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Boris Poslavsky as Officer (uncredited) |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin as Eastern wing shop-assistant (uncredited) |
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Natalya Rashevskaya as Washerwoman (uncredited) |
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Roman Rubinshteyn as Singer (uncredited) |
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Lyudmila Semyonova as (uncredited) |
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Boris Feodosyev as Officer (uncredited) |
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Yevgeni Chervyakov as National Guard's soldier |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Leonid Trauberg | Director |
| Directing | Grigori Kozintsev | Director |
| Writing | Leonid Trauberg | Writer |
| Writing | Grigori Kozintsev | Writer |
| Camera | Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |