The New Babylon backdrop

The New Babylon 1929 Directed by Leonid Trauberg , Grigori Kozintsev Новый Вавилон

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Languages No Language , Russian
Gneres Drama , History
Production Company Sovkino
Release Date 1 January 1929
92 mins
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)
Ida Penzo Lady at the ball (uncredited)
Boris Poslavsky Officer (uncredited)
Vsevolod Pudovkin Eastern wing shop-assistant (uncredited)
Natalya Rashevskaya Washerwoman (uncredited)
Roman Rubinshteyn Singer (uncredited)
Lyudmila Semyonova (uncredited)
Boris Feodosyev Officer (uncredited)
Yevgeni Chervyakov National Guard's soldier