Mishka yaponchik soundtrack

Russian Silent Film Classic

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 Krik and his gang. They profit from their criminal activities until the Russian Revolution when the local commissar sets them up as a "revolutionary" regiment, complete with tattooed red stars.

Mishka yaponchik soundtrack

But this new post backfires for Benya as he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.

"Vladimir Vilner’s 1927 Benya Krik is a long-lost evocation of Isaac Babel’s Odessa, shot on location, and directed from a script written by Babel himself.

Babel was 30