Bennie the Howl (1926) DVD-R

Starring Matvei Lyarov, Yuri Shumsky, Nikolai Nademsky, Ivan Zamychkovsky, Sergei Minin
Paul Page
Directed by Vladimir Vilner

Print: Black and White
Runtime: 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Subtitles: Russian with English subtitles

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 until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.