Synopsis & Context
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...
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- Пышка
- Release
- September 15, 1934
- Screen Time
- 1h 04min
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- Mikhail Romm
- Original Language
- Russian
- Country of Origin
- Russia
- Production Status
- Released
Personas & 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
Yevgeniya Mezentseva
Countess
Sofya Levitina
elderly nun
Nina Sukhotskaya
young nun
Vladimir Lavrinovich
Mr. Cornudet
Karl Gurnyak
german soldier
