Released
Boule de Suif
September 15 1934 (over 90 years ago)Rating
61
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17 reviews
For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute
- Director: Mikhail Romm
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 4 m
- Country: Soviet Union
- Company: Mosfilm
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...
