The New Babylon
January 1, 1929
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.
Cast and crew
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Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Leonid Trauberg
Director
Yelena Kuzmina
Louise Poirier
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean
David Gutman
Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Sofiya Magarill
An actress
Andrei Kostrichkin
The main shop-assistant
Sergei Gerasimov
Lutro
Yanina Zheymo
Therese
Arnold Arnold
Commune's Central Committee member
Boris Azarov
Soldier (uncredited)
B
Bernshtein
Friko (uncredited)
IV
Iraida Vinogradova
(uncredited)
Emil Gal
Bourgeois (uncredited)
AG
A. Glushkova
Washerwoman (uncredited)
SG
S. Gusev
Poirier
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)
Ida Penzo
Lady at the ball (uncredited)
Boris Poslavsky
Officer (uncredited)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Eastern wing shop-assistant (uncredited)
Natalya Rashevskaya
Washerwoman (uncredited)
RR
Roman Rubinshteyn
Singer (uncredited)
Lyudmila Semyonova
(uncredited)
Boris Feodosyev
Officer (uncredited)
Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's soldier