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Five Brides (1930)

Five Brides (1930)

Drama History
Release Date: 1930, March 18
Directors: Aleksandr Solovyov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: VUFKU
Cast: Konstantin Nazarenko, Stepan Shahaida, Amvrosii Buchma, Matvei Lyarov, Tamara Adelheim, Anna Meshcherskaya, Ivan Malikov-Elvorti, Raisa Rami-Shor, Yulia Koshevskaya, Tatiana Tokarskaya, Z. Tsiss, Borys Shelestov

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.