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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- Matvei LyarovMendel Krik
- Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son
- Anna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister
- Abram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
- Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy
- Teodor BraininLyovka Byk
- Heorhiy AstafyevAbdullah
- Aleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
- Osyp MerlattiFroim Grach
- Mikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
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- Vladimir VilnerDirector
- Isaak BabelScreenplay
- Oleksiy KalyuzhnyiDirector of Photography
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