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.

• Vladimir VilnerDirector
• Isaak BabelScreenplay

• 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