Overview
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...
Movie Info
Release Date: 9/15/1934
Runtime: 64 min
Director: Mikhail Romm
Writers: Mikhail Romm, Guy de Maupassant
Top Cast
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
Sofya Levitina
elderly nun
Karl Gurnyak
german soldier
Vsevolod Yakut
Narrator (1955 release)
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