Bavu
Wallace Beery as Bavu
Directed by	Stuart Paton
Written by	Raymond L. Schrock Albert Kenyon
Based on	The Attic of Felix Bavu by Earl Carroll
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Wallace Beery
Cinematography	Allen M. Davey
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 7, 1923 (1923-05-07)
Running time	8 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Bavu is a 1923 silent American drama film directed by Stuart Paton, starring Wallace Beery in the title role, and written by Albert Kenyon and Raymond L. Schrock based upon a play by Earl Carroll.^[1][2] The film is a period piece involving Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution.

Plot

According to the Motion Picture News: A Russian revolutionist incites the peasantry to burn the city. Mischka, a former servant in the nobelman's home, is commissioner of licenses under the new administration. He loves the princess and in order to get her out of the country it is necessary to have the passport sealed with the revolutionist's ring. A fight follows, but Mischka escapes with the girl while Bavu drowns in the pursuit.^[3]

Cast

• Wallace Beery as Felix Bavu
• Estelle Taylor as Princess Annia
• Forrest Stanley as Mischka Vleck
• Sylvia Breamer as Olga Stropik
• Josef Swickard as Prince Markoff
• Nick De Ruiz as Kuroff
• Martha Mattox as Piplette
• Harry Carter as Shadow
• Jack Rollens as Michael Revno

Preservation

With no prints of Bavu found in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.