The New Babylon

Overview

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

Top cast

Yelena Kuzmina

Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Jean, French soldier

David Gutman

Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop

Sofiya Magarill

An actress

Andrei Kostrichkin

The main shop-assistant

Sergei Gerasimov

Lutro, the journalist

Yanina Zheymo

Therese, a seamstress

Arnold Arnold

Commune's Central Committee member

Boris Azarov

Soldier (uncredited)

B

Bernshtein

Friko (uncredited)

I

Iraida Vinogradova

(uncredited)

Emil Gal

Bourgeois (uncredited)

A

A. Glushkova

Washerwoman (uncredited)

S

S. Gusev

Poirier, an old man (uncredited)

Elena Deyneko

(uncredited)

Oleg Zhakov

National Guard's soldier (uncredited)

Anna Zarzhitskaya

Flower girl (uncredited)

Leonid Klochkov

Commander (uncredited)

Tamara Makarova

Can-can dancer (uncredited)

Aleksandr Orlov

"Menelay" (uncredited)

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