Benya Krik

Original title: Беня Крик

Duration: 81 min

Release date: 1926-04-28

IMDB

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.

Drama

Беня Крик

Casting arrow_drop_down

as Benya Krik, Mendel's son

as Dvoira, Benya's sister

as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé

Mykola Nademskyi

Mykola Nademskyi

as Kolka Pakovskiy

Heorhiy Astafyev

Heorhiy Astafyev

Aleksandr Sashin

Aleksandr Sashin

as Savka Butsis

Mikhail Smolenskiy

Mikhail Smolenskiy

as Marantz, broker

Evgeni Lepkovsky

Evgeni Lepkovsky

as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries

as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

as Gypsy flower woman

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

as Gleczik, the policeman

Nikolay Kuchinskiy

Nikolay Kuchinskiy

as Sokovich, bailiff

as Commissar Sobkov

as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant

Leonid Chembarsky

Leonid Chembarsky

as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin

Lyubov Gakkebush

Lyubov Gakkebush

as (uncredited)

as Bailiff's mother (uncredited)

arrow_drop_down

Crew arrow_drop_down

Vladimir Vilner

Vladimir Vilner

Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi

Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi

Director of Photography

Heinrich Beisenherz

Heinrich Beisenherz

Production Design

arrow_drop_down

Recomendation Films

NextFilm 2025