Benya Krik

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.

Directed by Vladimir Vilner

Top cast

Matvei Lyarov

Mendel Krik

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

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

Osyp Merlatti

Froim Grach

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Mikhail Smolenskiy

Marantz, broker

Evgeni Lepkovsky

Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries

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Leonid Barbe

Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

Gypsy flower woman

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Gleczik, the policeman

Mykola Kuchynskyi

Sokovich, bailiff

Serhii Minin

Commissar Sobkov

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Ivan Sizov

Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant

Leonid Chembarsky

Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin

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Lyubov Gakkebush

(uncredited)

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Saksaganskaya

Bailiff's mother (uncredited)

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