Bennie the Howl
MovieTitle | Беня Крик |
User score | 5.8 |
Release date | Apr 28, 1926 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Vladimir Vilner |
Production country | Soviet Union |
Production companies | VUFKU |
Run time | 81 min. |
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.
Actors
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Mendel Krik
Yury Shumsky
Benya Krik - Mendel's son
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Gleczik - the policeman
Sergei Minin
Sobkov - the comissar
Teodor Brainin
Liovka Byk
A. Sashin
Savka
Evgeni Lepkovsky
Tartakovski
Leonid Barbe
Muginstein - Tartakovski's clerk
Heorhiy Astafyev
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Mykola Nademskyi
Kol'ka Pakovski