Benya Krik

Name: Benya Krik
Genre: Drama
Released: 1926-04-28
Duration: 1 h 21 min
Cast: Matvei Lyarov, Yurii Shumskyi, Anna Goricheva, Abram Vabnik, Mykola Nademskyi

1926 · Vladimir Vilner · 81 min

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.

Matvei LyarovMendel Krik

Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son Anna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister Abram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé

Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy Teodor BraininLyovka Byk Heorhiy AstafyevAbdullah Aleksandr SashinSavka Butsis

Osyp MerlattiFroim Grach Mikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker

Evgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries Leonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk

Anastasiya KozhevnikovaGypsy flower woman

Ivan ZamychkovskyiGleczik, the policeman

Mykola KuchynskyiSokovich, bailiff

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