Benya Krik
19261h 21m5.8
Drama
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genre
- Drama
- Origin
- Soviet Union
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
- Writing
- Isaak Babel
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Apr 28, 1926
- Studio
- VUFKU
Cast
Matvei 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
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
Gleczik, the policeman
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Sokovich, bailiff
Serhii Minin
Commissar Sobkov
Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Lyubov Gakkebush
(uncredited)
Saksaganskaya
Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
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