Benya Krik

Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик) is a fictional character from The Odessa Tales, a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, the derived works and "fan fiction".

These stories primarily deal with the Jewish underworld of Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa, and the mob leader, Benya Krik, known as the King, a romanticized "gallant thug".

[2] The screenplay was published in 1926 in a book form titled Беня Крик (кино-повесть) ("Benya Krik (Cinema-Novel)").

[3] In 1926–1928 Babel wrote a play Sunset loosely based on the story with the same name from The Odessa Tales.

A musical film titled The Drayman and the King was directed by Vladimir Alenikov [ru], based on The Odessa Tales and the play Sunset.