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Benya Krik (1926)

Benya Krik (1926)

Drama
Release Date: 1926, April 28
Directors: Vladimir Vilner
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: VUFKU
Cast: Ivan Zamychkovskyi, Serhii Minin, Leonid Chembarsky, Yurii Shumskyi, Anastasiya Kozhevnikova, Matvei Lyarov, Mykola Nademskyi, Ivan Sizov, Heorhiy Astafyev, Osyp Merlatti, Aleksandr Sashin, Abram Vabnik

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.