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The New Babylon

60 %|Jan 1, 1929|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.

Featured Crew

Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Leonid Trauberg
Director
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Grigori Kozintsev
Writer
Andrey Moskvin
Director of Photography
Evgeny Eney
Art Direction

Cast

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Yelena Kuzmina
Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
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David Gutman
Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
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Andrei Kostrichkin
The main shop-assistant
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Sofiya Magarill
An actress
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Arnold Arnold
Commune's Central Committee member
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Sergei Gerasimov
Lutro, the journalist
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Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's officer
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Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean, the soldier
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Yanina Zheymo
Therese, a seamstress
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Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier
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Vsevolod Pudovkin
Police intendent
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Lyudmila Semyonova
Can-can dancer
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A. Glushkova
Washerwoman
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Emil Gal
Bourgeois
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S. Gusev
Poirier, an old man