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.

Cast

Amvrosii Buchma, Tamara Adelheim, Raisa Rami-Shor, Yulia Koshevskaya, Tatiana Tokarskaya, Z. Tsiss, Matvei Lyarov, Borys Shelestov

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What is "Five Brides" about?

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.

When was "Five Brides" released?

Five Brides was released in 1930.

Who stars in "Five Brides"?

The cast includes Amvrosii Buchma, Tamara Adelheim, Raisa Rami-Shor, Yulia Koshevskaya.