Benya Krik
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 · Written by Isaak Babel
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Matvei Lyarov Mendel Krik -
Yurii Shumskyi Benya Krik, Mendel's son - Anna Goricheva Dvoira, Benya's sister
- Abram Vabnik Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
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Mykola Nademskyi Kolka Pakovskiy - Teodor Brainin Lyovka Byk
- Heorhiy Astafyev Abdullah
- Aleksandr Sashin Savka Butsis
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Osyp Merlatti Froim Grach - Mikhail Smolenskiy Marantz, broker
- Evgeni Lepkovsky Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- Leonid Barbe Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
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