In the Name of Life
{{Infobox film
| name = In the Name of Life
| image = In_the_Name_of_Life.jpg
| caption =
| director = {{ubl|Iosif Kheifits|Aleksandr Zarkhi}}
| producer =
| writer = {{ubl|Yevgeni Gabrilovich|Sergei Yermolinsky|Iosif Kheifits|Aleksandr Zarkhi}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Viktor Khokhryakov|Mikhail Kuznetsov|Oleg Zhakov|Klavdiya Lepanova}}
| music = Venedikt Pushkov
| cinematography = Vyacheslav Gordanov
| editing =
| studio = Lenfilm Studio
| distributor = Sovexport
| released = {{film date|1947}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
In the Name of Life ({{langx|ru|Во имя жизни|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.Liehm / Liehm p.53
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
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Bibliography
- Liehm, Mira / Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0039085}}
{{Aleksandr Zarkhi}}
{{Iosif Kheifits}}
Category:Russian-language drama films
Category:1940s Russian-language films
Category:Films directed by Iosif Kheifits
Category:Films directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
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