Benya Krik (1926)
Беня Крик
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.
- Date of release
- 1926-04-28
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
Casting
- 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
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