Released:
1934-09-15

Overview:
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...

Director:
Mikhail Romm

Runtime:
1h 4min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Galina Sergeyeva
  as
  Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)
• 
  Andrey Fayt
  as
  prussian officer
• 
  Anatoli Goryunov
  as
  Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant
• 
  Faina Ranevskaya
  as
  Mme. Loiseau
• 
  Pyotr Repnin
  as
  Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant