Bennie the Howl (1926)

Original title

Беня Крик

Directed by

Vladimir Vilner

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film, black comedy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish gangster rises through the criminal underworld in Odessa. The film follows his exploits as he builds a reputation for ruthlessness and dark humor.

darkly comicgrittyunsentimentalfast-pacedatmosphericwrybleak

What happens

Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик, romanized: Benya Krik) is a 1927 Soviet black comedy silent film, directed by Vladimir Vilner and starring Yuri Shumsky as Benya Krik. The film depicts the career of a Jewish Russian gangster, and was based on the Odessa Stories of Isaak Babel. The main setting is the city of Odessa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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