The New Babylon (1929)

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.

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Summary Details
Running Time2 hr
GenresDrama History
FilmmakersRole
Grigoriy Kozintsev Director
Leonid Trauberg Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev Writer
Leonid Trauberg Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich Composer
Andrey Moskvin Cinematographer
CastRole
David Gutman
Yelena Kuzmina
Andrei Kostrichkin
Sofiya Magarill