Benya Krik
movie
Released April 28, 1926
Genres:
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
Matviy Lyarov
as
Mendel Krik
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Yury Shumsky
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
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Osip 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
