Five Brides
movie

Released March 18, 1930
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
Amvrosi Buchma
as
Iyosele / Leiyzere
Tamara Adelheim
as
Mirra, bride #1
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Raisa Rami-Shor
as
Bride #2
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Yulia Koshevskaya
as
Bride #3
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Tatiana Tokarskaya
as
Bride #4
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Z. Tsiss
as
Bride #5
Matviy Lyarov
as
Rural rich man
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Boris Shelestov-Zauze
as
Petlyura army officer
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V. Kritskiy
as
Petlyura army officer
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Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
as
Petlyura army officer
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A. Kharitonov
as
Petlyura army officer
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Iosif Mindlin
as
Jew