Benya Krik (1926)
19261h 21mDrama
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 LyarovMendel Krik- YYurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son
- AAnna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister
- AAbram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy- TTeodor BraininLyovka Byk
- HHeorhiy AstafyevAbdullah
- AAleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
- OOsyp MerlattiFroim Grach
- MMikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
- EEvgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- LLeonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
- AAnastasiya KozhevnikovaGypsy flower woman
Ivan ZamychkovskyiGleczik, the policeman
Mykola KuchynskyiSokovich, bailiff
Serhii MininCommissar Sobkov- IIvan SizovKochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid ChembarskyAuctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Crew
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
- Writers
- Isaak Babel
- Cinematography
- Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
Details
- Released
- April 28, 1926
- Language
- Russian
- Studio
- VUFKU
- IMDb
- tt0182781