Screen version of G.de Maupassant’s story of the same name.
Mikhail Room was essentially inspired by the second part of Maupassant's "Boule de suif" story. A group of French people travel by stagecoach through occupied France. Among the travelers, a woman of little virtue whom the others, well-meaning bourgeois, ignore or look at with contempt. But when a Prussian officer demands the favors of the lady to deliver the indispensable passes, everyone begs her to give in for the common good. She refuses at first, then out of pity accepts. As soon as the precious documents were obtained, all the travelers again turned away from the lady and displayed their contempt.