Konstantin Eggert both directed and starred as Count Shemet, cursed by his insane mother’s traumatic experience with a bear to have seizures during which he himself becomes a “bear” on the kill.
Kazimir Shemet / Count Mikhail Shemet
Yulka
Mariya Ivinskaya
Adelina Shemet, count's wife
Olgerd Keystut
Old and demented Adelina
Pastor Vittenbah
Tuska, woodcutter's daughter
Vizha, street beggar
Avgusta Dovgello
