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...
00:00:56 Consultant: A. Molok
00:02:22 Death to the Prussians!
00:07:28 My dismissal?
00:11:15 We are all looking for love (Sofiya Magarill)
00:16:38 To a carefree Paris!
00:19:21 To Paris!
00:22:40 We need guns to make sure Paris doesn't fall!
00:28:33 I don't need your bread! I'm off.
00:31:55 I don't want to fight anymore! I want to return to my village!
00:35:14 What are you doing here?
00:39:23 Please, take our guns away!
00:41:38 To Versailles! We'll start from there!
00:47:09 this Paris is no more
00:48:42 We aren't evicted from our homes anymore.
00:52:21 Who did you leave behind?
00:55:03 Arise, children of the fatherland
00:58:52 This sitting is over.
01:04:02 Your deputies are done for.
01:12:30 peace and order is restored in Paris
01:16:26 I'll show you.
01:23:43 It's prohibited to beg in cafés.
01:29:37 Mama!
02:00:00 and arranged for the film's premier.
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 line02:00:00
Production Record
DirectorGrigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes956