Boule de Suif (1934)
September 15, 1934
Drama
1h 4m


For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute
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 & Crew
- Director
- Mikhail Romm
- Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif) Galina Sergeyeva
- prussian officer Andrey Fayt
- Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant Anatoli Goryunov
- Mme. Loiseau Faina Ranevskaya
- Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant Pyotr Repnin
- Mme Carré-Lamadon Tatyana Okunevskaya
- elderly nun Sofya Levitina
- german soldier Karl Gurnyak