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Benya Krik (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 | Anna Goricheva | A. Vabnik | Nikolai Nademsky | Teodor Brainin | Georgi Astafyev | A. Sashin | O. Merlatti | Mikhail Smolenskiy | Ye. Lepkovsky | Leonid Barbe | Anastasiya Kozhevnikova | Ivan Zamychkovskyi | Nikolai Kuchinsky | Sergei Minin | Ivan Sizov | L. Chembarsky | Lyubov Gakkebush | Saksaganskaya