Movies: Isaak Babel

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state,...

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The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution....

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story....

Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come....

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel....

The story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme....

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Directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower....

A film is sanctified to beginning of the great equipping with modern amenities of city of Odesa in 1935. A film was considered lost. Him was found out in Russia only in 2001 among the copies passed by the German cinematography....

The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik tr...

Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear th...