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
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Odessa Tales
Benya Krik is a 1927 Soviet black comedy silent film, directed by Vladimir Vilner and starring Yuri Shumsky as Benya Krik.
Production
The film was based on a screenplay written by Babel in 1926, in which he adapted parts of his short stories "The King" and "How It Was Done in Odessa", in addition to creating new content.
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