The New Babylon
Novyy Vavilon
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
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David Gutman
Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Yelena Kuzmina
Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
Andrei Kostrichkin
The main shop-assistant
Sofiya Magarill
An actress
Arnold Arnold
Commune's Central Committee member
Sergey Gerasimov
Lutro, the journalist
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Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's officer
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Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zheymo
Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
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Andrey Moskvin
Cinematographer