Five Brides (Пять невест)

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.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Amvrosi 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

Matviy Lyarov

Rural rich man

Boris Shelestov-Zauze

Petlyura army officer