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Bennie the Howl (1926)
Directed by Vladimir Vilner
Overview
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.
Length 81 minutes
Actors
Matvei Lyarov | Yu. Shumsky | Ivan Zamychkovskyi | Sergei Minin | Teodor Brainin | A. Sashin | Ye. Lepkovsky | Leonid Barbe | Georgi Astafyev | Anastasiya Kozhevnikova | Nikolai Nademsky