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Benya Krik

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Duration81 min.
LanguageNo Language
StatusReleased
Release DateApr 28, 1926

Overview

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.

Genres

  • Drama

Casts

Matviy Lyarov

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

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

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Gleczik, the policeman

Mykola Kuchynskyi

Mykola Kuchynskyi

Sokovich, bailiff

Serhii Minin

Serhii Minin

Commissar Sobkov

Ivan Sizov

Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant

Leonid Chembarsky

Leonid Chembarsky

Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin

Lyubov Gakkebush

(uncredited)

Saksaganskaya

Bailiff's mother (uncredited)