The New Babylon (1929)
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120 min
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.
- Release date
- March 18, 1929
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Yelena Kuzmina as Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
- Pyotr Sobolevsky as Jean, the soldier
- David Gutman as Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
- Sofiya Magarill as An actress
- Andrei Kostrichkin as The main shop-assistant
- Sergey Gerasimov as Lutro, the journalist
- Yanina Zheymo as Therese, a seamstress
- Emil Gal as Bourgeois (uncredited)
- Oleg Zhakov as National Guard's soldier
- Anna Zarzhitskaya as Flower girl (uncredited)
- Tamara Makarova as Can-can dancer (uncredited)
- Aleksandr Orlov as "Menelay" (uncredited)
- Boris Poslavsky as Officer (uncredited)
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Eastern wing shop-assistant (uncredited)
- Lyudmila Semyonova as (uncredited)
- Boris Feodosyev as Officer (uncredited)
- Yevgeni Chervyakov as National Guard's officer
- Arnold Arnold as Commune's Central Committee member
Crew
- Grigoriy Kozintsev · Director
- Leonid Trauberg · Director
- Grigoriy Kozintsev · Writer
- Leonid Trauberg · Writer
- Dmitri Shostakovich · Composer
- Andrey Moskvin · Cinematographer