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.
Watch the official Benya Krik 1926 trailer in HD below.
Matviy Lyarov as Mendel Krik
Yury Shumsky as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
A. Vabnik as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi as Kolka Pakovskiy
Teodor Brainin as Lyovka Byk
Heorhiy Astafyev as Abdullah
Aleksandr Sashin as Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti as Froim Grach
Evgeni Lepkovsky as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
Leonid Barbe as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova as Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi as Gleczik, the policeman
Nikolay Kuchinskiy as Sokovich, bailiff
Sergei Minin as Commissar Sobkov
Ivan Sizov as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
L. Chembarsky as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Vladimir Vilner Director
Isaak Babel Book
Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi Director of Photography
Isaak Babel Screenplay
Heinrich Beisenherz Production Design
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