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Benya Krik (1926)
Directed by Vladimir Vilner
Drama · 1h 21m
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 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
Details
- Original title
- Беня Крик
- Release date
- 1926-04-28
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- VUFKU