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Film / 1926
Benya Krik
Directed by
Vladimir Vilner
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Matvei LyarovMendel Krik
Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son
Anna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister
Abram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy
Teodor BraininLyovka Byk
Heorhiy AstafyevAbdullah
Aleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
Osyp MerlattiFroim Grach
Mikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
Evgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
Leonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
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Anastasiya KozhevnikovaGypsy flower woman
Ivan ZamychkovskyiGleczik, the policeman
Mykola KuchynskyiSokovich, bailiff
Serhii MininCommissar Sobkov
Ivan SizovKochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid ChembarskyAuctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Lyubov Gakkebush(uncredited)
SaksaganskayaBailiff's mother (uncredited)
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