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Медвежья свадьба (Medvezh’ia svad’ba)
Also known as [The Bear’s Wedding], [Marriage of the Bear], [The Legend of the Bear’s Wedding]
(1926) Soviet Union
B&W : [?] Eight? reels / 2296 metres
Directed by Konstantin Eggert + [Vladimir Gardin (prologue)]
Cast: Konstantin V. Eggert [Kazimir Shemet / Count Mikhail Shemet], Aleksandra V. Kartseva [Adelina Shemet, Kazimir’s wife], Vera S. Malinovskaya [Yulka], Natalya A. Rozenel [Panna Mariya Ivinskaya], Yuri Zavadsky [Olgerd Keystut], Boris M. Afonin [Yan Bredis, Shemet’s family doctor], Aleksandr A. Geirot [Pastor Vittenbakh, a Lithuanian researcher], Olga Lenskaya [Tuska, the logger’s daughter], Varvara A. Alyokhina [old and demented Adelina], A.G. Vostokov [Kaupas, the head butler], Yelena K. Volkonskaya [Avgusta Dovgello], Vladimir A. Vladislavskiy [a general], Vasili Bokarev [a cheerful guest], Karl Gurnyak [a footman], M. Rozenstein [a governess], N. Stal [a pauper], Nikolay Trofimov [the bear], Nikolay Gladilshchikov, Galina Kravchenko, Gulbike Sherbatova, Nikolai Vitovtov
Mezhrabpom-Rus’ production; distributed by [?] Sovkino? / Scenario by Grigorii Grebner and Anatolii V. Lunacharskii, from a play adaptation by Anatolii Lunacharskii of the novella Lokis by Prosper Mérimée. Production design by Vladimir Yegorov. Assistant director, Yuli Raizman. Cinematography by Pyotr Yermolov + [Eduard Tisse (prologue)]. / Released 25 January 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Gardin directed the film’s prologue. The film was released in the USA by Amkino Corporation [?] through Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated? on 20 May 1927. The film was rereleased in the USA on 28 July 1928.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Russia]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Youngblood-Soviet pp. 54, 78, 85, 94, 102, 104, 113, 115, 134, 185, 268, 270, 318 : Website-IMDb.
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