The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
Directed by Sergey Ginzburg
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Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.Read moreLess
Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.
The story
Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.
Cast & crew
Evgeniy TkachukМихаил Винницкий
Aleksey Filimonov
Valentin GaftCast
Igor SavochkinАкула (авторитет)
Elena ShamovaCast
Vadim NorshteynCast
Igor ArtashonovCast
Sergey MarinCast
Ilya LykovCast
Petr SkvortsovCast
Rimma MarkovaCastExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Eduard Moshkovich
- Producer
- Vladyslav Riashyn
- Original Music Composer
- Vladimir Davydenko
- Director
- Sergey Ginzburg
- Producer
- Vitaliy Bordachev
- Producer
- Elizaveta Troitskaya
- Screenplay
- Maxim Belozor