Movie Drama
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During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
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Micheline Presle Louis Salou Berthe Bovy Alfred Adam Jean Brochard Louise Conte Mona Dol Gabrielle Fontan Suzet Maïs Berthe Tissen Janine Viénot Denis d'Inès Robert Dalban Paul Faivre Jim Gérald Roger Karl Palau Georges Tourreil Michel Salina Marcel Simon Sinoël Louis Salou Lucien Bataille Pierre Duncan Albert Malbert Marcel Mouloudji Marcel Rouzé Howard Vernon Jean Werner
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