Five Brides (1930)
19300h 57mDramaHistory
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 BuchmaIyosele / Leiyzere
Tamara AdelheimMirra, bride #1- RRaisa Rami-ShorBride #2
- YYulia KoshevskayaBride #3
Tatiana TokarskayaBride #4- ZZ. TsissBride #5
Matvei LyarovRural rich man
Borys ShelestovPetlyura army officer- VV. KritskiyPetlyura army officer
Ivan Malikov-ElvortiPetlyura army officer- AA. KharitonovPetlyura army officer
- IIosif MindlinJew
- AAnna MeshcherskayaOld mother
- DD. TyurchinYoung komsomol member
- AAleksandr IstominPetlyura army lieutenant
Stepan ShahaidaSquadron commander- KKonstantin Nazarenko(uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Aleksandr Solovyov
- Writers
- David Maryan
- Cinematography
- Albert Kyun
Details
- Released
- March 18, 1930
- Language
- Russian
- Studio
- VUFKU
- IMDb
- tt0021277