Boule de Suif
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“For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute”
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...
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Galina Sergeyeva
Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
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Andrey Fayt
prussian officer
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Anatoli Goryunov
Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
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Faina Ranevskaya
Mme. Loiseau
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Pyotr Repnin
Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
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Tatyana Okunevskaya
Mme Carré-Lamadon
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Mikhail Mukhin
Count de Bréville
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Jubilee
Yevgeniya Mezentseva
Countess
Sofya Levitina
elderly nun
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Nina Sukhotskaya
young nun
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Vladimir Lavrinovich
Mr. Cornudet
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Karl Gurnyak
german soldier
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Mikhail Romm Director · Guy de Maupassant Author Mikhail Chulaki Composer
United States release May 4, 1958 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Languages No dialogue, Russian
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Пышка
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue · Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 15, 1934
Theatrical
United States · May 4, 1958
Theatrical
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