In the Name of Life
1947 film
- Iosif Kheifits
- Aleksandr Zarkhi
- Yevgeni Gabrilovich
- Sergei Yermolinsky
- Iosif Kheifits
- Aleksandr Zarkhi
- Viktor Khokhryakov
- Mikhail Kuznetsov
- Oleg Zhakov
- Klavdiya Lepanova
Production
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Lenfilm Studio
Release date
- 1947 (1947)
Running time
In the Name of Life (Russian: Во имя жизни, romanized: Vo imya zhizni) is a 1947 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi and starring Viktor Khokhryakov, Mikhail Kuznetsov and Oleg Zhakov.[1]
Plot
Three young surgeons are working on the problem of cell recovery – two of them give up but Dr Petrov continues his research. In difficult times, he supports the budding actress Lena Pogodina, with whom he is in love.
Cast
- Viktor Khokhryakov as Doctor Vladimir Petrov
- Mikhail Kuznetsov as Doctor Aleksandr Kolesov
- Oleg Zhakov as Doctor Aleksei Rozhdestvensky
- Klavdiya Lepanova as Lena
- Lyudmila Shabalina as Vera
- Mikhail Rostovtsev as Uchenyi
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Lukich, the attendant
- Margarita Gromyko as Anushka
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
- Boris Kudryavtsev
- Vladimir Dorofeyev
References
- ^ Liehm / Liehm p.53
Bibliography
- Liehm, Mira / Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.
External links
- In the Name of Life at IMDb
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Films by Aleksandr Zarkhi
- Wind in the Face (1930)
- My Motherland (1933)
- Red Army Days (1935)
- Baltic Deputy (1936)
- Member of the Government (1939)
- His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942)
- The Last Hill (1944)
- In the Name of Life (1946)
- The Precious Seed (1948)
- The Lights of Baku (1950)
- The Height (1957)
- People on the Bridge (1960)
- My Younger Brother (1962)
- Anna Karenina (1967)
- Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)
- Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981)
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