Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Originally released under title: Beni͡a Krik
Title on container: Isaac Babel's classic story 'Benya Krik'
Originally released under title: Беня Крик
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| Other uniform titles: | Vilner, Vladimir.
Liarov, M.
Shumskiĭ, I͡U.
Goricheva, A.
Babnik, A.
Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940. Odesskie rasskazy.
Вилнер, Владимир.
Бабель, И. (Исаак), 1894-1940. Одесские рассказы.
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| Other authors / contributors: | VUFKU (Firm)
National Center for Jewish Film.
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive.
ВУФКУ (Firm)
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| ISBN: | 9781585871896
1585871893
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| Notes: | Videodisc release of the silent motion picture produced in 1926.
Based on stories in Odesskie rasskazy / [by] Isaac Babel.
"[Benya Krik] not only presented its swaggering hero as the victim of the Bolshevik regime but risked accusations of anti-Semitism by Jews as criminal profiteers ... Opening in Kiev in early 1927, Benya Krik was almost immediately banned by the Ukrainian office for political education"--J. Hoberman, 'Village Voice' (quoted on container).
Camera, A. Kaluzhnyi; executive director [of English language restoration], Sharon Pucker Rivo.
M. Liarov, IU. Shumskii, A. Goricheva, A. Babnik.
DVD, NTSC, all regions.
Silent with English intertitles and credits.
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| Summary: | The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa 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. They profit from their criminal activities until the Russian Revolution and the local commissar assigns them "emergency revictualing patrol," making them a "revolutionary" regiment, complete with tattooed red stars. But this new post backfires for Benya as he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
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