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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.

Top Cast

  • Amvrosii Buchma

    Amvrosii Buchma

    Iyosele / Leiyzere

  • Tamara Adelheim

    Tamara Adelheim

    Mirra, bride #1

  • Raisa Rami-Shor

    Raisa Rami-Shor

    Bride #2

  • Yulia Koshevskaya

    Yulia Koshevskaya

    Bride #3

  • Tatiana Tokarskaya

    Tatiana Tokarskaya

    Bride #4

  • Z. Tsiss

    Z. Tsiss

    Bride #5

  • Matvei Lyarov

    Matvei Lyarov

    Rural rich man

  • Borys Shelestov

    Borys Shelestov

    Petlyura army officer

  • V. Kritskiy

    V. Kritskiy

    Petlyura army officer

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.

Rating

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