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Benya Krik / produced by Film Studio One, VUFKU ; script by Isaac Babelʹ ; directed by V. Vilner.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives DVD PG3476.B2 O432 2005
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Subjects (All):
- I͡Aponchik, Mishka.
- Jews--Ukraine--Odesa--Drama.
- Jews.
- Gangsters--Ukraine--Odesa--Drama.
- Gangsters.
- History.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Ukraine--History--Revolution, 1905-1907--Drama.
- Ukraine.
- I︠A︡ponchik, Mishka--Drama.
- I︠A︡ponchik, Mishka.
- Motion pictures, Ukrainian.
- Ukraine--Odesa.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Gangster films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Originally released in Ukrainian under title: Beni͡a Krik
- Title on container: Isaac Babel's classic story 'Benya Krik'
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Silent with English intertitles and credits.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions.
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- 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.
- Participant:
- M. Liarov, IU. Shumskii, A. Goricheva, A. Babnik.
- Credits:
- Camera, A. Kaluzhnyi; executive director [of English language restoration], Sharon Pucker Rivo..
- 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).
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Disc V1087.
- ISBN:
- 158571893
- 9781585871896
- OCLC:
- 606163374
- Publisher Number:
- 800821021006
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