Benya Krik
First film studio VUFKU production.
Movie-essay in 6 parts
Script: Isaak Babel Director: V. Vilner
Cinematographer: Aleksei Kalyuzhny Art director: Georgi Baizengerts
Featuring: Mendel Krik - Matvei Lyarov Benya Krik - Yuri Shumsky Dvoira - A. Gornicheva Her bridegroom - A. Vabnik
Raiders: Kol'ka Pakovski - Nikolai Nademsky Liovka the Bull -Teodor Brainin Abdullah - Georgij Astafyev Saveliy Butsis - A. Sashin Froim Grach - O. Marlatti
Marants - M. Smolensky Tartakovsky - Yevgeniy Lepkovsky Muginstein - Leonid Barbe Gypsy - V. Kozhevnikova Glechik, constable - Ivan Zamychkovsky Sokovich, police officer - Nikolay Kuchinski
Sobkov, comissar - Sergey Minin Kochetkov, his assistant - I. Sizov Bidder - Leonid Chembarsky
Entertainments of a police officer Sokovich
"And under the light of the enchanting eyes"...
"Even if I don't live till I'll lead my daughter to the altar un... unless today"...
"The King is marrying off his sister today... "They" will get completely drunk so you can pull a delicious roust on "Them"...
"Cross my palm with silver, Czarevitch!.. Give alms, stunner"!..
The dock workers considered Mendel Krik a vandal.
"Gee, get going, lazy beasts".
"Marants visited the police officer today"...
Carrier's business establishment Mendel Krik and Sons.
Their majesties Savka Butsis and the Persian Abdullah.
His majesty "The King"
"Marants, god damn his mother's eyes.. Marants visited the police officer"...
"There's something to earn, Marants"...
"Let's walk, little Marants"...
"People say you snitched about me to the police officer, Marants"...
"Let's walk"...
"People say, madame Marants, that your late husband had been snitching about me to the police"...
Constable Glechik on duty
They're coming
The King's pals at the wedding of Dvoira Krik.
"Today will be the end of Benchik... We'll seize "them" at the wedding"...
Petropavlovsk police station of the city of Odessa
War loan 5 1/2%.
Fellas, where there's His Majesty the Emperor there cannot exist another king...
Vexation of spirit of the constable Glechik
Mendel Uscherovich Krik and wife, Tevya Hananievich Spielhagen and wife humbly ask you to come to the wedding of their children
Vera Mikhailovna Krik and Lazarus Timofeevich Spielhagen which will take place on Tuesday, September 5th, 1914. Yours truly - the parents.
To go or not to go?
... Today's raid will give us a chance to catch all of Benya Krik's gang.
Mommies, aunties, let me go!..
Kiss!..
- Kiss!..
Ah, now we live!..
The police is coming!
The police has come!
Drink, cop, so that your soul will depart!
Gobble it up, so that your soul will depart!..
To get boiling water...
Get boiling water!
It seems to me, Benchik, there's a smell of burning here...
At God, at heaven, at the mother!
- Oh, oh, oh, good grief... It's a real nightmare!..
- Ah, now we live!
Ruvim Tartakovsky, the owner of 19 pastry shops, determines his attitude towards the revolution.
Long live the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT!
And now, Muginstein, let's congratulate the workers.
And what about the toilet, Monsieur Tartakovsky?
- What's wrong with the toilet?
It's leaking, it's leaking on my head... All the toilet water dripping on my head...
The cholera carried away Nikolka, madame Greenspan, now everyone will be alright, and you will be alright also...
We accept ORDERS for "Fantaisie" CAKES
Izvestia of Soviet of workers deputies, representatives of army and navy, appears daily, except for the days after holidays Thursday, april 27 (10 may), 1917, ¹17
PASTRY and BAKERY ¹16 of a joint-stock company ¹16 RUVIM TARTAKOVSKY
Gentlemen, I congratulate you on a great freedom... Now we also can breathe freely...
Long live the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT!
Breasts on the altar of the fatherland...
For the revolution.
Citizens of a free Russia! Buy for luck the legacy of the cursed regime in favour of disabled heroes. Fifty roubles. Who'll give me more?
Sixteen kopecks per heritage of the cursed regime!.. Who'll give me more?
On behalf of the revolution - merci!
So, you lived to see revolution, Sobkov...
The revolution will take place when we'll take away their cash...
On that score you're right, Sobkov...
Monsieur Tartakovsky, I've ordered one person to find...
50.000 roubles tomorrow morning under the gate on Sofievskaya street ¹17.
In case he won't find them there will be an unprecedented thing in store for you
and all over Odessa the people will speak about you. Cordially yours. Benya the King
Benya, if you were an idiot I'd write to you as to an idiot,
but I don't think you to be that sort of man and God forbid me to think you to be such a man,
I don't have any money, but instead I have ulcers, diseases, troubles, insomnia.
Stop that nonsense Benya. Your friend Ruvim Tartakovsky
Let's go, Savka...
Grach, there's something to talk over. Benya
Abdullah, there's something to talk over. Benya
Liovka the Bull, besides some other people, killed the kosher bird.
What impudence! You can't write in Russian...
- Stick 'em up!
Savka, you used to be cold-blooded on the job...
- Who's the boss here?
I am... I'm the boss here.
Open the safe with the help of God...
- Open the mouth.
Wear it and don't cough!
Bandit, I have a hernia!..
What a wonderful two carat jewel!
Smoke and don't cough!
But Savka wasn't used to be cold-blooded on the job...
- Scramble from the office!..
I swear on my mother's happiness, you'll lie beside him, Saveliy...
The police of the lawyer Kerensky.
The raid!.. We are raided!..
Run to the chief, Spielhagen, and report that Tartakovsky was raided.
The chief of police the lawyer Tsysin.
- Give me some plucky guys and we'll take the King.
We don't need criminal!..
- Let him go, Froim - there is no making head or tail of it to understand what those Bolsheviks want...
"And now I ask you to to pay funeral honours to the unknown, but already late Saveliy Butsis"...
"Take me to your guys, Sobkov, and I swear on my mother's happiness I'll give up raids!"
You're spreading it on thick, man!
"I swear on my mother's happiness, Sobkov!"
The year 1918... In unceasing battles the Red Army was rising. Soviet power was defending itself in the south against counter-revolution of all hues...
Benya Krik, struggling to reform his handicraft gang, "knocked together" a regiment.
Commander of the B. "revolutionary" regiment and his aide-de-camp, Froim Grach
from the revolutionary HANDICRAFTSMEN
"To the cheka!"
"...ask you to protect revolutionary Odessa in the heart of revolutionary Odessa and..."
Telegram (in Ukrainian) ... disarm units of Benya Krik at all cost stop Send help battalion 15 stop
"To the barracks, quick!"
... but this was a car of the 1918-th...
B. "revolutionary" regiment prepares for decisive battles.
"Tell Jusim, he'll weep blood for such work... Let him finish printing!"
INFANTRY REGIMENT named after FRENCH and German REVOLUTION
- Comrades!
The workers' power wants to forget your former crimes. It demands a fair service to the proletariat from you...
Trusting you, the Executive Committee decided to form retreat-blocking surplus-appropriation detachments from your regiment...
Seduced by "food surplus" prospects the regiment of Benya Krik decided to set out from Odessa.
INFANTRY REGIMENT named after the FRENCH REVOLUTION
PARTY EDUCATIONAL TROUPE named after the FRENCH REVOLUTION under INFANTRY REGIMENT
USSR
March, 31, 1926
USSR
- Let me do number one, Kochetkov...
- You'll shoot your "number one" at the enemy...
Let's drink to brotherhood.
- Bear no grudge against me, Benya!..
- Go on, comrade...
Graph 2nd public tannery Rise in leaver production
The end subtitles Kammerer & serdar202