Five Brides

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

Amvrosii Buchma Iyosele / Leiyzere Tamara Adelheim Mirra, bride #1 Raisa Rami-Shor Bride #2 Yulia Koshevskaya Bride #3 Tatiana Tokarskaya Bride #4

Z. Tsiss Bride #5

Matvei Lyarov Rural rich man Borys Shelestov Petlyura army officer V. Kritskiy Petlyura army officer Ivan Malikov-Elvorti Petlyura army officer A. Kharitonov Petlyura army officer Iosif Mindlin Jew

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