The plot is based on real events described by Ivan Franko in a series of criminal reports for the newspaper "Kurjer Lwowski" in 1889. The writer used the motives of these events in the story "The Foundations of Society".
Investigative agent Shpang
Alfons Dzerzhikrai
Countess Olympia Torska
Olympia in her youth
Judge Kovnatskyi
Yurko Demenyuk
Yevka Podgayna
Count Adam Torsky
Joseph Gadyna
Yan Yaiko
Gandzia Mikhalytska
Tadeusz Rozvadynskyi
Jan Lutso
Kazimir Gnot
Nestor in his youth
Malanka Demenyuk
Stanislav Kalyasanty
Nestor Derevatskyi
Vladek Mikhalitskyi
Count Torsky