Benya Krik (1926)
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.
Year
1926
Country
SU
Language
Russian
Release date
28 April 1926
TMDB
5.8 (6)
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Matvei Lyarov
Mendel Krik
Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
A
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
A
Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
T
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
H
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
A
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
M
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
L
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik, the policeman
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Sokovich, bailiff
Serhii Minin
Commissar Sobkov
I
Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
L
Lyubov Gakkebush
(uncredited)
S
Saksaganskaya
Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
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