The New Babylon
1929 · 92 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 956 VOTES · DIR. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 198 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 This musical reconstruction is based on a manuscript by Dmitri Shostakovich...
00:00:59 Assistant: S. Bartenev
00:02:47 War! The prices have gone up!
00:08:18 Sale!
00:13:18 I am looking for love, mademoiselle.
00:17:47 The French army...
00:20:52 Cheerful...
00:24:14 but the working class.
00:29:54 The Prussians and the bourgeoisie...
00:33:21 preparations
00:37:23 If only I were younger...
00:40:43 Shoot that rabble!
00:44:10 Jean, please don't go!
00:48:26 Our children aren't cannon fodder for the rich anymore.
00:50:39 in Versailles
00:54:45 Friends! Let us sing the hymn of a free France:
00:58:16 The enemy has broken through!
01:03:15 We are communards!
01:12:30 peace and order is restored in Paris
01:16:26 I'll show you.
01:23:59 the trial
01:29:49 They shoot us as if we were arsons...
Cast & Characters
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
Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's officer
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zheymo
Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed198
Dialogue density2.2 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:29:49
Production Record
DirectorGrigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes956