Five Brides

Five Brides

57 mins | Drama, History | March 18, 1930

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.

Five Brides

57 mins | Drama, History | March 18, 1930

Five Brides
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.
Producers VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration)
Original title Пять невест
Directors Aleksandr Solovyov
Writers David Marian

Cast

Amvrosi Buchma

as Iyosele / Leiyzere

Tamara Adelheim

as Mira, the first bride

Matviy Lyarov

as Rural rich man