The Marriage of the Bear
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Release date | 1925 |
Country | Soviet Union |
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The Marriage of the Bear (
Prosper Mérimée wrote many short stories of which Lokis is one. He was also the author of
Mérimée's novella has two other adaptations on film that are known so far: 1971 as Lokis by Polish director Janusz Majewski, and again in 1975 as The Beast by Polish auteur Walerian Borowczyk.
Plot
When a pregnant Russian countess is frightened by a bear, she later gives birth to a male child who acts in some ways like an animal. As the boys matures, he takes to stalking young women in the forest while wearing the skin of a bear. When he becomes an adult, the boy marries a young girl and appears to be normal. But on their honeymoon, he turns into a bear and murders his wife, drinking her blood. But it's not clear whether the transformation is real, or if the young man just believes he is a bear and is acting like one.
Cast
- Konstantin Eggert
- Vera Malinovskaya as Yulka
- B. Afonin
- Varvara Alyokhina as Old Adelina
- Alexander Geirot
- Aleksandra Kartseva as Adelina Shemet
- Galina Kravchenko
- Olga Lenskaya
- Natalya Rozenel
- M. Rozenstein
- N. Stal
- Nikolai Vitovtov
- Vladimir Vladislavskiy
- Ye. Volkonskaya
- Yuri Zavadsky as Olgert
References
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ Bawden p.649
- ^ "Медвежья свадьба". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema.
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
Bibliography
- Liz-Anne Bawden. The Oxford companion to film. Oxford University Press, 1976.
External links
- The Marriage of the Bear at IMDb
- The Marriage of the Bear is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive (Russian)