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...
Directed by Mikhail Romm
Written by Mikhail Romm
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
Yevgeniya Mezentseva
Countess
Sofya Levitina
elderly nun
Nina Sukhotskaya
young nun