The Maid of Rouen Named Boule de Suif (1989)
A television musical based on the short stories by Guy de Maupassant — "Boule de Suif", "Mademoiselle Fifi", and "A Peasant Girl's Story" — simple yet infinitely complex works that remain deeply relevant and true to life, despite being written in the 19th century. Themes of love and betrayal, the search for one's place in life, loneliness, pride, morality and immorality...
Directors: Yevgeni Ginzburg, Rauf Mamedov.
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Natalya Lapina as Pyshka |
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Aleksandr Abdulov as |
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as |
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Natalya Krachkovskaya as |
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Leonid Yarmolnik as |
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Mamuka Kikaleishvili as |
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Valentina Talyzina as |
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Lyudmila Arinina as Mme. Loiseau |
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Konstantin Raykin as |
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Nina Ruslanova as |
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Anatoliy Obukhov as |
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Rob van der Eng as Actor, Dancer-Choreographer (балетмейстер) |
| Directing | Yevgeni Ginzburg | Director |
| Directing | Rauf Mamedov | Director |
| Sound | Georgiy Garanyan | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Guy de Maupassant | Novel |
| Writing | Kim Ryzhov | Writer |