The read
It runs a compact 1h 21m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Vladimir VilnerDirector
- Isaak BabelScreenplay
Cast
- Matvei LyarovMendel Krik
- Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son
- Anna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister
- Abram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
- Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy
- Teodor BraininLyovka Byk
- Heorhiy AstafyevAbdullah
- Aleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
- Osyp MerlattiFroim Grach
- Mikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
- Evgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- Leonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk