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To Cook a Bear(2025)

Also known as Koka bjorn • Медвежий суп

Archived · Disney+

7.0
6 eps
S01
CrimeDramaMystery

In the mid-nineteenth century in the village of Kengis, northern Sweden, the body of a shepherd's girl is found in a bog. Soon the villagers set out in search of the killer bear they think is on the rampage.

Feels like
folkloric dreadslow-burn mysteryunreliable communityrural historical crime
ON AIR: OCT 15Season 1Archived listing

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