The New Babylon
1929 · 92 min · Drama, History
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.
- Directors
- Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
- Writers
- Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
- Released
- March 18, 1929
- Language
- Russian
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)
Bernshtein
Friko (uncredited)
Iraida Vinogradova
(uncredited)
Emil Gal
Bourgeois (uncredited)
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