The New Babylon

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.

• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
• Leonid TraubergDirector
• Grigori KozintsevDirector
• Leonid TraubergWriter
• Grigori KozintsevWriter

• Yelena KuzminaLouise Poirier, the shop-assistant
• Pyotr SobolevskyJean, French soldier
• David GutmanOwner of the 'New Babylon' shop
• Sofiya MagarillAn actress
• Andrei KostrichkinThe main shop-assistant
• Sergei GerasimovLutro, the journalist
• Yanina ZheymoTherese, a seamstress
• Arnold ArnoldCommune's Central Committee member
• Boris AzarovSoldier (uncredited)
• BernshteinFriko (uncredited)
• Iraida Vinogradova(uncredited)
• Emil GalBourgeois (uncredited)