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The Drayman and the King

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Original title

Bindyuzhnik i korol

Year

1989

Running time

169 min.

Country

Soviet Union (USSR)

Director

Vladimir Alenikov

Screenwriter

Vladimir Alenikov, Asar Eppel. Book: Isaak Babel

Cast

Music

Aleksandr Zhurbin

Cinematography

Anatoliy Grishko

Producer

Akvilon, Maksim Gorki Studio, TVK, Videofilm

Genre

Comedy. Drama. Musical

Synopsis

Moldavanka is a legendary region of pre-revolutionary Odessa, a hectic, carefree world, to the brim full of bright southern life. Here dwells a motley, resilient people, as well as the pride of the Moldavanka - the charming thug Benya Crick, nicknamed King, son of the binder Mendel Crick. This whole story begins when Mendel decided to leave his family and go to the young beauty Maruska, selling his stable, well-known to all of Odessa.

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