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...
- Created by
- Mikhail Romm
- Origin
- SU
- TMDB rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 19 votes
Cast
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