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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The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babels story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik Mike the Jap Vinnitsky.
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05 August 1926
Anna Case sings a song while the Cansino family dances in the background.
14 November 1926
Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
30 May 1926
Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days.
25 October 1926
Peter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew.
24 January 1926
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits.
04 July 1926
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex.
14 February 1926
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground.
26 June 1926
Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat.
08 August 1926
Farmer Al Falfa is the proprietor of a lunchroom, and Thomas Cat and Milton Mouse (and his little mice friends) all help Al.
31 May 1926
A short film starring Fearless the dog and directed by Lou Carter.
06 August 1926
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