The Law of Life (1940)
Закон жизни
About the life of Soviet students. A group of students-graduates of a medical institute organizes a farewell party. The secretary of the regional Komsomol committee unexpectedly appears and starts openly agitating sexual promiscuity. The party turns into an ugly drunkenness.
- Date of release
- 1940-08-07
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Boris Ivanov, Aleksandr Stolper
Casting
- Daniil Sagal
- Oswald Glazunov — Matvey Georgievich Babanov
- Nina Zorskaya
- Elena Kondrateva — Nina Babanova
- Anna Zaporozhets
- Grigoriy Shpigel
- Mikhail Sidorkin
- Ivan Lyubeznov
- Aleksei Alekseyev
- Fyodor Ivanov — Student
- Aleksandr Lukyanov — Yevgeniy Ognerubov, secretary of the komsomol regional committee
- Viktor Bubnov — Ognerubov's office visitor (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Law of Life is a 1940 Soviet drama film directed by Boris Ivanov and Aleksandr Stolper and starring Daniil Sagal, Aleksandr Lukyanov and Oswald Glazunov. Despite its strong endorsement of communist ideology, the film was fiercely attacked in Pravda and withdrawn from release.
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