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.
Konstantin Eggert
as Kazimir Shemet / Count Mikhail Shemet
Vera Malinovskaya
as Yulka
Natalya Rozenel
as Mariya Ivinskaya
Aleksandra Kartseva
as Adelina Shemet, count's wife
Yuri Zavadsky
as Olgerd Keystut
Varvara Alyokhina
as Old and demented Adelina
Alexander Geirot
as Pastor Vittenbah
Olga Lenskaya
as Tuska, woodcutter's daughter
N. Stal
as Vizha, street beggar
Yelena Volkonskaya
as Avgusta Dovgello