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The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)

Crime
Drama
mins
8.7
2011

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Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.

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Evgeniy Tkachuk
Aleksey Filimonov
Valentin Gaft
Igor Savochkin
Elena Shamova
Vadim Norshteyn
Igor Artashonov
Sergey Marin

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