
Five Brides
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.
Amvrosii Buchmaas Iyosele / LeiyzereTamara Adelheimas Mirra, bride #1Raisa Rami-Shoras Bride #2Yulia Koshevskayaas Bride #3Tatiana Tokarskayaas Bride #4Z. Tsissas Bride #5Matvei Lyarovas Rural rich manBorys Shelestovas Petlyura army officerV. Kritskiyas Petlyura army officerIvan Malikov-Elvortias Petlyura army officerA. Kharitonovas Petlyura army officerIosif Mindlinas JewAnna Meshcherskayaas Old motherD. Tyurchinas Young komsomol memberAleksandr Istominas Petlyura army lieutenantStepan Shahaidaas Squadron commanderKonstantin Nazarenkoas (uncredited)