Overview
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
- Matvei Lyarov as Mendel Krik
- Yurii Shumskyi as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
- Anna Goricheva as Dvoira, Benya's sister
- Abram Vabnik as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
- Mykola Nademskyi as Kolka Pakovskiy
- Teodor Brainin as Lyovka Byk
- Heorhiy Astafyev as Abdullah
- Aleksandr Sashin as Savka Butsis
- Osyp Merlatti as Froim Grach
- Mikhail Smolenskiy as Marantz, broker