Benya Krik
1926
1h 21min
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
Storyline
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
Released
28 April 1926
Runtime
1h 21min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Russian
Production
VUFKU
Cast
Matviy Lyarov
Mendel Krik
Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik, the policeman
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Sokovich, bailiff
Serhii Minin
Commissar Sobkov
Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Lyubov Gakkebush
(uncredited)
Saksaganskaya
Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
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