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.
Starring
Matviy Lyarov
Mendel Krik
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Yurii Shumskyi
Benya Krik, Mendel's son
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Anna Goricheva
Dvoira, Benya's sister
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Abram Vabnik
Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola Nademskyi
Kolka Pakovskiy
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Teodor Brainin
Lyovka Byk
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Heorhiy Astafyev
Abdullah
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Aleksandr Sashin
Savka Butsis
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Osyp Merlatti
Froim Grach
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Mikhail Smolenskiy
Marantz, broker
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Evgeni Lepkovsky
Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
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Leonid Barbe
Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
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