Five Brides

Overview

A Soviet propaganda film based on material from the Bolshevik coup. During the Russian civil war, the Whites, that anti-Communist force that fought against the Bolsheviks during that period, capture a Jewish Ukranian village; the gang commander threatens a pogrom, and will kill everyone in the village unless the inhabitants agree to give to the White Officers five virgin girls in wedding dresses. Under such terrible pressure, the Jewish council of the town decides, full of sorrow and despair, to sacrifice their daughters to the drunken officers but fortunately and just in time, a detachment of partisans that belong to the Red Army, comes and frees the village.

Directed by Aleksandr Solovyov

Top cast

Amvrosii Buchma

Iyosele / Leiyzere

Tamara Adelheim

Mirra, bride #1

R

Raisa Rami-Shor

Bride #2

Y

Yulia Koshevskaya

Bride #3

Tatiana Tokarskaya

Bride #4

Z

Z. Tsiss

Bride #5

Matvei Lyarov

Rural rich man

Borys Shelestov

Petlyura army officer

V

V. Kritskiy

Petlyura army officer

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

Petlyura army officer

A

A. Kharitonov

Petlyura army officer

I

Iosif Mindlin

Jew

A

Anna Meshcherskaya

Old mother

D

D. Tyurchin

Young komsomol member

A

Aleksandr Istomin

Petlyura army lieutenant

Stepan Shahaida

Squadron commander

K

Konstantin Nazarenko

(uncredited)

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