Benya Krik (original) (raw)
Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик) is a fictional character from The Odesa 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 Odesa, and the mob leader, Benya Krik, known as the King, a romanticized "gallant thug". His character was loosely based on the real gangster, Mishka Yaponchik. These stories were the base of the 1927 silent film Benya Krik. The screenplay was published in 1926 in a book form titled Беня Крик (кино-повесть) ("Benya Krik (Cinema-Novel)").
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик) is a fictional character from The Odesa 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 Odesa, and the mob leader, Benya Krik, known as the King, a romanticized "gallant thug". His character was loosely based on the real gangster, Mishka Yaponchik. These stories were the base of the 1927 silent film Benya Krik. The screenplay was published in 1926 in a book form titled Беня Крик (кино-повесть) ("Benya Krik (Cinema-Novel)"). In 1926-1928 Babel wrote a play Sunset loosely based on the story with the same name from The Odesa Tales. In 1990 a film was shot based on the same story. The focus of the three works is not Benya himself, but his family. A film was released in 1989, directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich and based on The Odesa Tales. A musical film titled The Drayman and the King was directed by , based on The Odesa Tales and the play Sunset. It was shot in 1989 and premiered in 1990. ('Drayman' refers to Mendel Krik, the father of Benya Krik). (en) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Benya_Krik.jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 52558195 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageInterLanguageLink | dbpedia-ru:Беня_Крик |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2617 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1106233793 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Benya_Krik_(film) dbc:Fictional_Russian_Jews dbr:Culture_of_Odesa dbr:Outlaw_(stock_character) dbr:Georgi_Yungvald-Khilkevich dbr:Mishka_Yaponchik dbc:Isaac_Babel dbc:Odesa_in_fiction dbr:Sunset_(play) dbc:Fictional_gangsters dbr:Fan_fiction dbr:Isaac_Babel dbr:Jews dbr:Odesa dbr:Odessa_Stories dbr:Ghetto dbr:Musical_film dbr:Moldavanka dbr:The_Drayman_and_the_King dbr:File:Benya_Krik.jpg dbr:The_Art_of_Living_in_Odesa |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Ill dbt:Reflist |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Fictional_Russian_Jews dbc:Isaac_Babel dbc:Odesa_in_fiction dbc:Fictional_gangsters |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Film |
| rdf:type | yago:BadPerson109831962 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Criminal109977660 yago:Gangster110120085 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Principal110474950 yago:Wrongdoer109633969 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo dbo:Film yago:Whole100003553 yago:WikicatFictionalMobsters yago:WikicatFictionalRussianPeople |
| rdfs:comment | Benya Krik (Russian: Беня Крик) is a fictional character from The Odesa 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 Odesa, and the mob leader, Benya Krik, known as the King, a romanticized "gallant thug". His character was loosely based on the real gangster, Mishka Yaponchik. These stories were the base of the 1927 silent film Benya Krik. The screenplay was published in 1926 in a book form titled Беня Крик (кино-повесть) ("Benya Krik (Cinema-Novel)"). (en) |
| rdfs:label | Benya Krik (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Benya Krik wikidata:Benya Krik https://global.dbpedia.org/id/FuqfP |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Benya_Krik?oldid=1106233793&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Benya_Krik.jpg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Benya_Krik |
| is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of | dbr:Krik |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_fictional_Jews dbr:Benya_Krik_(film) dbr:Brainin dbr:Mishka_Yaponchik dbr:Sunset_(disambiguation) dbr:Sunset_(play) dbr:Isaac_Babel dbr:Sergey_Koltakov dbr:Krik dbr:Odessa_Stories dbr:Moldavanka |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Benya_Krik |
