Benya Krik (1926)
NR1h 21mApr 28, 1926ReleasedNR(6)
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.
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
- Writers
- Isaak Babel
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
E
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
L
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
