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

Original title: Жизнь и приключения Мишки Япончика

• 2011
• •
• Ended
• •
• 16+

• Crime
• Drama

★ 8.3 TMDB Rating · 6 votes

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.

Created by

Sergey Ginzburg

Seasons

1

Episodes

12

First aired

Nov 9, 2011

Networks

Channel One

Original language

Russian

Origin

Russia, Ukraine