Bennie the Howl
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
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik - the policeman
Teodor Brainin
Liovka Byk
A. Sashin
Savka
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Tartakovski
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein - Tartakovski's clerk
Vladimir Vilner
Director
Isaak Babel
Book
Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
Director of Photography
Isaak Babel
Screenplay