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.
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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
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
Roman Rubinshteyn
Singer (uncredited)
Lyudmila Semyonova
Boris Feodosyev
Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's soldier
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Andrey Moskvin
Director of Photography
Evgeny Eney
Production Design