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.
Director:
Vladimir Vilner
Writer:
Isaak Babel
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Matvei Lyarov as Mendel Krik |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Anastasiya Kozhevnikova as Gypsy flower woman |
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Ivan Zamychkovskyi as Gleczik, the policeman |
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Mykola Kuchynskyi as Sokovich, bailiff |
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Serhii Minin as Commissar Sobkov |
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Ivan Sizov as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant |
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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) |
| Directing | Vladimir Vilner | Director |
| Writing | Isaak Babel | Book |
| Writing | Isaak Babel | Screenplay |
| Camera | Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi | Director of Photography |
| Art | Heinrich Beisenherz | Production Design |
