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Benya Krik

Genre:Drama

Released:1926-04-28

Runtime:81

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.


Cast:

Matviy Lyarov

Character: Mendel Krik

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Yurii Shumskyi

Character: Benya Krik, Mendel's son

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Anna Goricheva

Character: Dvoira, Benya's sister

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Abram Vabnik

Character: Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé

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Mykola Nademskyi

Character: Kolka Pakovskiy

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Teodor Brainin

Character: Lyovka Byk

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Heorhiy Astafyev

Character: Abdullah

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Aleksandr Sashin

Character: Savka Butsis

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Osyp Merlatti

Character: Froim Grach

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Mikhail Smolenskiy

Character: Marantz, broker

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Evgeni Lepkovsky

Character: Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries

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Leonid Barbe

Character: Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk

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Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

Character: Gypsy flower woman

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Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Character: Gleczik, the policeman

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Mykola Kuchynskyi

Character: Sokovich, bailiff

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Serhii Minin

Character: Commissar Sobkov

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Ivan Sizov

Character: Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant

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Leonid Chembarsky

Character: Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin

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Lyubov Gakkebush

Character: (uncredited)

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Saksaganskaya

Character: Bailiff's mother (uncredited)

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