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Boule de Suif (1934)

Boule de Suif (1934)

Drama

For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute

Release Date: 1934, September 15
Directors: Mikhail Romm
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Mikhail Mukhin, Andrey Fayt, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Faina Ranevskaya, Vsevolod Yakut, Nina Sukhotskaya, Pyotr Repnin, Anatoli Goryunov, Karl Gurnyak, Galina Sergeyeva, Sofya Levitina, Yevgeniya Mezentseva

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...