Comedy ·Drama ·Romance · Soviet Union · 1938 · 43m

The Bear

Медведь

Director

Cast

Olga Androvskaya as Yelena Ivanovna Popova Mikhail Zharov as Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov Ivan Pelttser as Luka, the servant Konstantin Sorokin as Mariya Shlenskaya as

Crew

Yevgeni Shapiro — Director of Photography M. Bodrennikova — Editor Valery Zhelobinsky — Original Music Composer Isidor Annensky — Writer G. Kobilivker — Producer Lyudmila Putievskaya — Production Design

Synopsis

A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late husband. They argue , duel with pistols , and fall in love while all of this is witnessed by Popova's servant Luka.

Key Collaborators

Isidor Annensky Director Yevgeni Shapiro Director of Photography M. Bodrennikova Editor Valery Zhelobinsky Original Music Composer Isidor Annensky Writer G. Kobilivker Producer Lyudmila Putievskaya Production Design

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