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Bennie the Howl (1926)

1h 21m

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Bennie the Howl (1926)

Name: Bennie the Howl
Genre: Drama
Released: 1926-04-28

1h 21m

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April 28, 1926
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Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Matviy Lyarov

Mendel Krik

Yury Shumsky

Benya Krik - Mendel's son

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Gleczik - the policeman

M.D. Gorecheva

Dvoyra - Benya's sister

Sergei Minin

Sobkov - the comissar

Teodor Brainin

Liovka Byk

A. Vabnik

Lazar - Dvoyra's groom

A. Sashin

Savka

Evgeni Lepkovsky

Tartakovski

Leonid Barbe

Muginstein - Tartakovski's clerk

Aleksandr Sashin

Saveliy Butsis

Heorhiy Astafyev

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

O. Merlatti

Froim Grach

Mykola Nademskyi

Kol'ka Pakovski

Vladimir Vilner

Director

Isaak Babel

Book / Screenplay

Oleksiy Kalyuzhnyi

Director of Photography

Heinrich Beisenherz

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Details.

Release Date
April 28, 1926

Original Name
Беня Крик

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 21m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик, romanized: Benya Krik) is a 1927 Soviet black comedy silent film, directed by Vladimir Vilner and starring Yuri Shumsky as Benya Krik.

The film depicts the career of a Jewish Russian gangster, and was based on the Odessa Stories of Isaak Babel. The main setting is the city of Odessa.