{{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.<ref>Liehm / Liehm p.53</ref>
== 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== {{reflist}}
==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:Soviet drama films Category:Russian-language drama films Category:1947 drama films Category:1947 films Category:1947 Russian-language films Category:Films directed by Iosif Kheifits Category:Films directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi Category:Soviet black-and-white films Category:1947 Soviet films {{1940s-USSR-film-stub}}