Benya Krik (1926)
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.
- Released
- 1926-04-28
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vladimir Vilner, Isaak Babel
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Matvei Lyarov as Mendel Krik
- Yurii Shumskyi as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
- Anna Goricheva as Dvoira, Benya's sister
- Abram Vabnik as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
- Mykola Nademskyi as Kolka Pakovskiy
- Teodor Brainin as Lyovka Byk
- Heorhiy Astafyev as Abdullah
- Aleksandr Sashin as Savka Butsis
- Osyp Merlatti as Froim Grach
- Mikhail Smolenskiy as Marantz, broker
- Evgeni Lepkovsky as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- Leonid Barbe as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk