Boule de Suif

For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute

Original title: Пышка

Duration: 64 min

Release date: 1934-09-15

IMDB

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...

Drama

Пышка

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Galina Sergeyeva

Galina Sergeyeva

as Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)

as prussian officer

Anatoli Goryunov

Anatoli Goryunov

as Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant

Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Ranevskaya

as Mme. Loiseau

as Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant

Tatyana Okunevskaya

Tatyana Okunevskaya

as Mme Carré-Lamadon

as Count de Bréville

Yevgeniya Mezentseva

Yevgeniya Mezentseva

Nina Sukhotskaya

Nina Sukhotskaya

Vladimir Lavrinovich

Vladimir Lavrinovich

as Mr. Cornudet

as german soldier

Valentina Kuznetsova

Valentina Kuznetsova

as maid of the hotel

as Narrator (1955 release)

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Valentina Kuznetsova

Valentina Kuznetsova

Assistant Director

Production Design

Director of Photography

Mikhail Chulaki

Mikhail Chulaki

Original Music Composer

Production Design

Evgeniya Indlina

Evgeniya Indlina

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Nikolai Vladimirov

Nikolai Vladimirov

Executive Producer

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