Беня Крик
5.2
81 minutes
4/28/1926
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.
Cast List
Matviy Lyarov
as Mendel Krik
Yury Shumsky
as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
Anna Goricheva
as Dvoira, Benya's sister
Abram 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
Osip Merlatti
as Froim Grach
Mikhail Smolenskiy
as Marantz, broker
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
Serhii Minin
as Commissar Sobkov
Ivan Sizov
as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
Lyubov Gakkebush
as (uncredited)
Saksaganskaya
as Bailiff's mother (uncredited)