Five Brides

Five Brides 1930 Directed by Aleksandr Solovyov Пять невест

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.

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language No Language

Gneres Drama , History

Production Company VUFKU

Release Date 18 March 1930

57 mins