A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
| Directing | Mikhail Romm | Director |
| Art | Yosyp Shpinel | Production Design |
| Directing | Valentina Kuznetsova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Boris Volchek | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Mikhail Chulaki | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Mikhail Romm | Writer |
| Art | Pyotr Beitner | Production Design |
| Sound | Evgeniya Indlina | Sound |
| Writing | Guy de Maupassant | Short Story |