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.
as Mendel Krik
as Benya Krik, Mendel's son
as Dvoira, Benya's sister
as Lazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
as Kolka Pakovskiy
as Lyovka Byk
as Abdullah
as Savka Butsis
as Froim Grach
as Marantz, broker
as Ruvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
as Muginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
as Gypsy flower woman
as Gleczik, the policeman
as Sokovich, bailiff
as Commissar Sobkov
as Kochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
as Auctioneer / Jury member Tsysin
as (uncredited)
as Bailiff's mother (uncredited)
