- Unknown:
- Anton Chekhov
- Translated By:
- David Tutaev
- Production By:
- Raymond Raikes
- Spoken By:
- Peter Wyngarde
- Leader:
- Emanuel Hurwitz
- Alexander Serebryakov, a retired Professor:
- Cyril Shaps
- Helena, his second wife:
- Olive Gregg
- Sonia, his daughter by his first wife:
- Adrienne Corri
- Maria Voynitsky, mother of the professor's first wife:
- Kathleen Helme
- Georges, her son:
- Anthony Jacobs
- Dr Michael Kruschov (The Wood Demon):
- Norman Wooland
- Hya Dyadin (Waffles), an impoverished landowner.:
- John Glyn-Jones
- Leonid Zheltukhin a rich young landowner:
- Denis Goacher
- Julie, his sister:
- Janette Richer
- Orlovsky godfather Ivan a neighbouring landowner:
- Haydn Jones
- Theodore, his son:
- David Peel
