About
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.
Director
Writer
Studio
VUFKU
Original Title
Беня Крик
Original Language
Russian
Cast
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Matvei Lyarov
Mendel Krik
Y
Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
A
Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
M
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
T
Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
H
Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
A
Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
O
Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
M
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
L
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
A
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Gypsy flower woman
I
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik, the policeman
M
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Sokovich, bailiff
S
Serhii Minin
Commissar Sobkov
I
Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
L
Leonid Chembarsky
Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
S
Saksaganskaya
Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
