Boule de Suif

For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute

Boule de Suif — Plot

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...

• Release date
• September 15, 1934
• Runtime
• 64 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mikhail Romm

Boule de Suif — 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

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Yevgeniya Mezentseva Countess