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.
Matviy Lyarov
Yury Shumsky
Anna Goricheva
Abram Vabnik
Mykola Nademskyi
