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Status
Released
Release
1925
Runtime
1h 8m
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.
23 Cast Members
Konstantin Eggert
Kazimir Shemet / Count Mikhail Shemet
Vera Malinovskaya
Yulka
Natalya Rozenel
Mariya Ivinskaya
Aleksandra Kartseva
Adelina Shemet, count's wife
Yuri Zavadsky
Olgerd Keystut
Varvara Alyokhina
Old and demented Adelina
Alexander Geirot
Pastor Vittenbah
Olga Lenskaya
Tuska, woodcutter's daughter
N. Stal
Vizha, street beggar
Yelena Volkonskaya
Avgusta Dovgello
Boris Afonin
Yan Bredis, Shemet's family doctor
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
General
A. Vostokov
Kaupas, butler
Vasili Bokarev
Merry guest (uncredited)
Nikolai Vitovtov
Peasant (uncredited)
Nikolay Gladilshchikov
(uncredited)
Karl Gurnyak
Lackey (uncredited)
Galina Kravchenko
(uncredited)
Tatyana Mukhina
Little girl (uncredited)
Georgiy Petrovskiy
