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."

Cast

Matvei Lyarov

as Mendel Krik

Yurii Shumskyi

as Benya Krik, Mendel's son

Anna Goricheva

as Dvoira, Benya's sister

Abram Vabnik

as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé

Mykola Nademskyi

as Kolka Pakovskiy

Teodor Brainin

as Lyovka Byk

Heorhiy Astafyev

as Abdullah

Aleksandr Sashin

as Savka Butsis

Osyp Merlatti

as Froim Grach

Mikhail Smolenskiy

as Marantz, broker

Evgeni Lepkovsky

as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries

Leonid Barbe

as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

as Gypsy flower woman

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

as Gleczik, the policeman

Mykola Kuchynskyi

as Sokovich, bailiff

Serhii Minin

as Commissar Sobkov

Ivan Sizov

as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant

Leonid Chembarsky

as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin

Lyubov Gakkebush

as (uncredited)

Saksaganskaya

as Bailiff's mother (uncredited)

Crew

Vladimir Vilner

Director

Isaak Babel

Book

Isaak Babel

Screenplay

Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi

Director of Photography

Heinrich Beisenherz

Production Design