For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute

Boule de Suif

6.2 (19 votes)• 1934• 64m•Released

Drama

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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...

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Languages: No Language

Director: Mikhail Romm

Starring Cast: Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt, Anatoli Goryunov, Faina Ranevskaya, Pyotr Repnin, Tatyana Okunevskaya

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

Yevgeniya Mezentseva

Countess

Sofya Levitina

elderly nun

Nina Sukhotskaya

young nun

Vladimir Lavrinovich

Mr. Cornudet

Karl Gurnyak

german soldier

Valentina Kuznetsova

maid of the hotel

Vsevolod Yakut

Narrator (1955 release)

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