Feature film · 1926
Benya Krik
5.8·81 min·1926·Drama·Soviet Union
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
20 credited
Matvei Lyarov
Mendel Krik
Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
AG
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
AV
Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
TB
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
HA
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
AS
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
MS
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
