Benya Krik
81 mins
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.
Yury Shumsky
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
Osip Merlatti
Froim Grach
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik, the policeman
Nikolay Kuchinskiy
Sokovich, bailiff
Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Lyubov Gakkebush
(uncredited)
Saksaganskaya
Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
Vladimir Vilner
Director
Isaak Babel
Book
Isaak Babel
Screenplay
Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
Director of Photography
