No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Matvei LyarovMendel Krik
Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's sonAnna Goricheva
Anna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sisterAbram Vabnik
Abram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola NademskyiKolka PakovskiyTeodor Brainin
Teodor BraininLyovka BykHeorhiy Astafyev
Heorhiy AstafyevAbdullahAleksandr Sashin
Aleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
Osyp MerlattiFroim GrachMikhail Smolenskiy
Mikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
Evgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeriesLeonid Barbe
Leonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerkExplore the crew
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
- Director of Photography
- Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi
- Screenplay
- Isaak Babel