An Interview with Writer/Director Albert Acosta
We sat down with Writer/Director Albert Acosta to discuss his debut short film, (ha-ha), Acosta's foray into narrative cinema, and how his personal experiences have shaped his filmmaking philosophy.
In the Name of Life (1946)
Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired results, and two of them lose faith in success...
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Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired results, and two of them lose faith in success...
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Iosif Kheifits, Sergey Yermolinsky, Yevgeni Gabrilovich, Aleksandr Zarkhi
In Theaters:11/11/1946
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Runtime:101 minutes
Studio:Lenfilm
Cast
Aleksandr Zarkhi, Iosif Kheifits
Director
Oleg Zhakov
Dr. Aleksei Rozhdestvensky
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Dr. Aleksandr Kolesov
Nikolai Cherkasov
Lukich
Viktor Khokhryakov
Dr. Vladimir Petrov
Lyudmila Shabalina
Vera
Klavdiya Lepanova
Lena
Boris Kudryavtsev
Vladimir Dorofeyev
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Scientist at the banquet
Aleksandr Ardi
"Arbenin"
Vladimir Taskin
Journalist
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