Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif

64 mins | Drama | Sept. 15, 1934

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...

Boule de Suif

64 mins | Drama | Sept. 15, 1934

Boule de Suif
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...
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Пышка
Directors Valentina Kuznetsova, Mikhail Romm
Writers Mikhail Romm, Guy de Maupassant

Cast

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