1934 · 64 min · Drama
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...
Directed by Mikhail Romm. Starring Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt, Anatoli Goryunov, Faina Ranevskaya and Pyotr Repnin.
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