Boule de Suif

Name: Boule de Suif
Director: Mikhail Romm
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934-09-15
Duration: 1 h 4 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt, Anatoli Goryunov, Faina Ranevskaya, Pyotr Repnin

“For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute”

1934

1h 4m

Drama

Director: Mikhail Romm

Writer: Mikhail Romm

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...