Benya Krik
- Drama
4/28/1926
81
Storyline
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.
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Cast
Matviy LyarovMendel Krik- Yury ShumskyBenya 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
- Osip 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
- Nikolay KuchinskiySokovich, bailiff
- Serhii MininCommissar Sobkov