The New Babylon (1929)

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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.

GENRES:  Drama • History • War
DIRECTION:  Grigori Kozintsev  •  Leonid Trauberg

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Cast & Characters

Yelena Kuzmina Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
David Gutman Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Andrei Kostrichkin The main shop-assistant
Sofiya Magarill An actress
Arnold Arnold Commune's Central Committee member
Sergei Gerasimov Lutro, the journalist
Yevgeni Chervyakov National Guard's officer
Pyotr Sobolevsky Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zheymo Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov National Guard's soldier
Vsevolod Pudovkin Police intendent
Lyudmila Semyonova Can-can dancer

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