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The New Babylon

Leonid Trauberg

1929 • 1h 32m

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...

The New Babylon

Cast

Yelena Kuzmina

Yelena KuzminaLouise Poirier, the shop-assistant

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Pyotr SobolevskyJean, French soldier

David Gutman

David GutmanOwner of the 'New Babylon' shop

Sofiya Magarill

Sofiya MagarillAn actress

Andrei Kostrichkin

Andrei KostrichkinThe main shop-assistant

Sergei Gerasimov

Sergei GerasimovLutro, the journalist

Yanina Zheymo

Yanina ZheymoTherese, a seamstress

Arnold Arnold

Arnold ArnoldCommune's Central Committee member

Boris Azarov

Boris AzarovSoldier (uncredited)

BernshteinFriko (uncredited)

Iraida Vinogradova(uncredited)

Emil Gal

Emil GalBourgeois (uncredited)

A. GlushkovaWasherwoman (uncredited)

S. GusevPoirier, an old man (uncredited)

Elena Deyneko

Elena Deyneko(uncredited)

Crew

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer

Leonid Trauberg

Leonid TraubergDirector

Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori KozintsevDirector

Andrey Moskvin

Andrey MoskvinDirector of Photography

Evgeny Eney

Evgeny EneyProduction Design

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