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Benya Krik (1926)

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.

Release: 1926-04-28
Runtime: 81 min
Rating: 5.2 / 10
Cast
Matviy Lyarov
Matviy Lyarov
Mendel Krik
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Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
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Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
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Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
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Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
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Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
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Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
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Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
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Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
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Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
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Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
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Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Gypsy flower woman
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik, the policeman
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Sokovich, bailiff
Serhii Minin
Serhii Minin
Commissar Sobkov
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Ivan Sizov
Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid Chembarsky
Leonid Chembarsky
Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin