The Bear's Wedding (1925)

★ 5.4/10 68 min Drama, Horror Soviet Union Russian

Directors: Vladimir Gardin , Konstantin Eggert

Novel: Prosper Mérimée
Screenplay by: Georgiy Grebner
Theatre Play: Anatoli Lunacharsky

Streaming: Not available

Description

Konstantin Eggert both directed and starred as Count Shemet, cursed by his insane mother’s traumatic experience with a bear to have seizures during which he himself becomes a “bear” on the kill.

Top Cast

Konstantin Eggert Kazimir Shemet / Count Mikhail Shemet

Vera Malinovskaya Yulka

Natalya Rozenel Mariya Ivinskaya

Aleksandra Kartseva Adelina Shemet, count's wife

Yuri Zavadsky Olgerd Keystut

Varvara Alyokhina Old and demented Adelina

Alexander Geirot Pastor Vittenbah

Olga Lenskaya Tuska, woodcutter's daughter