Benya Krik
1926 · 81 min
Drama
★ 5.8The 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.
Crew
- Director Vladimir Vilner
- Screenplay Isaak Babel
- Director of Photography Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
Cast
Matvei Lyarov
Mendel Krik
Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
- A
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
- A
Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
- T
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
- H
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
- A
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
- M
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- L
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Crew
- Director — Vladimir Vilner
- Screenplay — Isaak Babel
- Director of Photography — Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
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