Five Brides

The story

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.

Cast

A Amvrosii BuchmaIyosele / Leiyzere T Tamara AdelheimMirra, bride #1 R Raisa Rami-ShorBride #2 Y Yulia KoshevskayaBride #3 T Tatiana TokarskayaBride #4 Z Z. TsissBride #5 M Matvei LyarovRural rich man B Borys ShelestovPetlyura army officer V V. KritskiyPetlyura army officer I Ivan Malikov-ElvortiPetlyura army officer A A. KharitonovPetlyura army officer I Iosif MindlinJew

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A Anna MeshcherskayaOld mother D D. TyurchinYoung komsomol member A Aleksandr IstominPetlyura army lieutenant S Stepan ShahaidaSquadron commander K Konstantin Nazarenko(uncredited)