

The New Babylon
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
No Language
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Studio
Sovkino
Key Crew

Leonid Trauberg
Director

Grigori Kozintsev
Director

Leonid Trauberg
Writer

Grigori Kozintsev
Writer
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)
A. Glushkova
Washerwoman (uncredited)
S. Gusev
Poirier, an old man (uncredited)
Elena Deyneko
(uncredited)

Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier (uncredited)

Anna Zarzhitskaya
Flower girl (uncredited)
Leonid Klochkov
Commander (uncredited)

Tamara Makarova
Can-can dancer (uncredited)

Aleksandr Orlov
"Menelay" (uncredited)