Boule de Suif (1934) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Release, runtime and language

1934 · 64 mins

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Directed by

Mikhail Romm

Starring

Mikhail Mukhin, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Faina Ranevskaya, Pyotr Repnin, Andrey Fayt, Nina Sukhotskaya

A film adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s short story set during the 1870 Franco‑Prussian War. A group of French bourgeois travel by stagecoach from occupied Rouen, accompanied by an attractive demimonde woman derisively called “Boule‑de‑Suif.” When the carriage is stopped, the authorities insist she submit to the gendarmerie chief’s advances, presenting her as the only means to secure their passage.