
"For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute"
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...
Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-Suif)

prussian officer

Mr. Louiseau, wine merchant

Mme. Loiseau

Mr. Carré-Lamadon, cotton merchant

Mme Carré-Lamadon

Count de Bréville
Countess
elderly nun

young nun
Mr. Cornudet
german soldier

maid of the hotel
Narrator (1955 release)
