Watch Benya Krik (1926) Official Trailer
5.8 / 10 IMDb April 28, 1926 1h 21m
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
Runtime
1h 21m
Release Date
April 28, 1926
Genre
Drama
Status
Released
Languages
No Language
Country
Soviet Union
Writers
Cast
Matvei Lyarov
as Mendel Krik
Yurii Shumskyi
as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
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Anna Goricheva
as Dvoira, Benya's sister
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Abram Vabnik
as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
as Kolka Pakovskiy
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Teodor Brainin
as Lyovka Byk
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Heorhiy Astafyev
as Abdullah
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Aleksandr Sashin
as Savka Butsis
Osyp Merlatti
as Froim Grach
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Mikhail Smolenskiy
as Marantz, broker
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Evgeni Lepkovsky
as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
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Leonid Barbe
as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
as Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
as Gleczik, the policeman
Mykola Kuchynskyi
as Sokovich, bailiff
Serhii Minin
as Commissar Sobkov
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Ivan Sizov
as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
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Lyubov Gakkebush
as (uncredited)
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Saksaganskaya
as Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
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