Lithuania, first half of the 19th century. While hunting on the outskirts of the ancient castle of Count Mikhail Shemet, a bear attacks the Countess.


In the annals of silent cinema, few works evoke the same sense of primordial dread and psychological complexity as The Bear's Wedding (1925). Emerging from the burgeoning Soviet film industry—an era more frequently associated with the montage theories of Eisenstein or the industrial fervor of Vertov—this film stands ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Konstantin Eggert

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" In the annals of silent cinema, few works evoke the same sense of primordial dread and psychological complexity as The Bear's Wedding (1925). Emerging from the burgeoning Soviet film industry—an era more frequently associated with the montage theories of Eisenstein or the industrial fervor of Vertov—this film stands as a startling, Gothic outlier. Directed by Konstantin Eggert and Vladimir Gardin, it is an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's novella Lokis, yet it transmutes its literary source int..."
Georgiy Grebner, Anatoli Lunacharsky, Prosper Mérimée
Soviet Union


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