Boule de Suif

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...

• Mikhail RommDirector
• Mikhail ChulakiOriginal Music Composer
• Mikhail RommWriter

• 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