Boule de Suif (1934)
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...
Director: Mikhail Romm
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Galina Sergeyeva as Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif) |
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Andrey Fayt as prussian officer |
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Anatoli Goryunov as Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant |
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Faina Ranevskaya as Mme. Loiseau |
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Pyotr Repnin as Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant |
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Tatyana Okunevskaya as Mme Carré-Lamadon |
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Mikhail Mukhin as Count de Bréville |
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Yevgeniya Mezentseva as Countess |
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Sofya Levitina as elderly nun |
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Nina Sukhotskaya as young nun |
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Vladimir Lavrinovich as Mr. Cornudet |
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Karl Gurnyak as german soldier |
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Valentina Kuznetsova as maid of the hotel |
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Vsevolod Yakut as Narrator (1955 release) |
| Directing | Mikhail Romm | Director |
| Art | Yosyp Shpinel | Production Design |
| Directing | Valentina Kuznetsova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Boris Volchek | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Mikhail Chulaki | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Mikhail Romm | Writer |
| Art | Pyotr Beitner | Production Design |
| Sound | Evgeniya Indlina | Sound |
| Writing | Guy de Maupassant | Short Story |
| Sound | Arnold Roytman | Conductor |
| Production | Nikolai Vladimirov | Executive Producer |
