Boule de Suif
1934A 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...
Acted in
Galina Sergeyeva
as Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
Andrey Fayt
as prussian officer
Anatoli Goryunov
as Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
Faina Ranevskaya
as Mme. Loiseau
Pyotr Repnin
as Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
Tatyana Okunevskaya
as Mme Carré-Lamadon
Mikhail Mukhin
as Count de Bréville
Yevgeniya Mezentseva
as Countess
Sofya Levitina
as elderly nun
Nina Sukhotskaya
as young nun
Vladimir Lavrinovich
as Mr. Cornudet
Karl Gurnyak
as german soldier
Valentina Kuznetsova
as maid of the hotel