Benya Krik

*5.8

Status

Released

Production

VUFKU

Aired

1926-04-28

Benya Krik

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.