The New Babylon (1929)
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.
- Released
- 1929-03-18
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 from 26 votes
Cast
- Yelena Kuzmina as Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
- Pyotr Sobolevsky as Jean, French soldier
- David Gutman as Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
- Sofiya Magarill as An actress
- Andrei Kostrichkin as The main shop-assistant
- Sergei Gerasimov as Lutro, the journalist
- Yanina Zheymo as Therese, a seamstress
- Arnold Arnold as Commune's Central Committee member
- Boris Azarov as Soldier (uncredited)
- Bernshtein as Friko (uncredited)
- Iraida Vinogradova as (uncredited)
- Emil Gal as Bourgeois (uncredited)