Five Brides (1930)
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.
Director: Aleksandr Solovyov
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Amvrosii Buchma as Iyosele / Leiyzere |
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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 |
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Matvei Lyarov as Rural rich man |
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Borys Shelestov 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 |
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Anna Meshcherskaya as Old mother |
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D. Tyurchin as Young komsomol member |
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Aleksandr Istomin as Petlyura army lieutenant |
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Stepan Shahaida as Squadron commander |
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Konstantin Nazarenko as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Aleksandr Solovyov | Director |
| Writing | David Maryan | Writer |
| Art | Yosyp Shpinel | Production Design |
| Camera | Albert Kyun | Director of Photography |
