The read
It runs a compact 1h 4m.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
19 audience votes
Key crew
- Mikhail RommDirector
- Mikhail ChulakiOriginal Music Composer
- Mikhail RommWriter
Cast
- Galina SergeyevaElizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
- Andrey Faytprussian officer
- Anatoli GoryunovMr. Louiseau, wine merchant
- Faina RanevskayaMme. Loiseau
- Pyotr RepninMr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant
- Tatyana OkunevskayaMme Carré-Lamadon
- Mikhail MukhinCount de Bréville
- Yevgeniya MezentsevaCountess
- Sofya Levitinaelderly nun
- Nina Sukhotskayayoung nun
- Vladimir LavrinovichMr. Cornudet
- Karl Gurnyakgerman soldier