Boule de Suif
Storyline
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...
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
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)
Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm
Released
