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1947 Soviet Union film

In the Name of Life

Directed by	Iosif Kheifits Aleksandr Zarkhi
Written by	Yevgeni Gabrilovich Sergei Yermolinsky Iosif Kheifits Aleksandr Zarkhi
Starring	Viktor Khokhryakov Mikhail Kuznetsov Oleg Zhakov Klavdiya Lepanova
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Gordanov
Music by	Venedikt Pushkov
Production company	Lenfilm Studio
Distributed by	Sovexport
Release date	1947 (1947)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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.

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

v t e 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)

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)

v t e Films by Iosif Kheifits
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) Spring in Moscow (1953) A Big Family (1954) The Rumyantsev Case (1955) My Beloved (1958) Lady with the Dog (1960) The Horizon (1961) In S. City (1966) Hail, Mary! (1971) Asya (1977) Vagrant Bus (1989)

Films by Iosif Kheifits

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)
Spring in Moscow (1953)
A Big Family (1954)
The Rumyantsev Case (1955)
My Beloved (1958)
Lady with the Dog (1960)
The Horizon (1961)
In S. City (1966)
Hail, Mary! (1971)
Asya (1977)
Vagrant Bus (1989)

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