Bennie the Howl

Bennie the Howl

81 mins | Drama | April 28, 1926

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.

Bennie the Howl

81 mins | Drama | April 28, 1926

Bennie the Howl
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.
Producers VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration)
Original title Беня Крик
Directors Vladimir Vilner
Writers Isaak Babel

Cast

Matviy Lyarov

as Mendel Krik

Nikolai Nademsky

as Kol'ka Pakovski

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

as Gleczik - the policeman

Sergei Minin

as Sobkov - the comissar

Teodor Brainin

as Liovka Byk

A. Sashin

as Savka

Evgeni Lepkovsky

as Tartakovski

Leonid Barbe

as Muginstein - Tartakovski's clerk