Law of Baseness
Law of Baseness
1962, Russian. Directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin.
Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.
- Runtime
- 0h 49m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 January 1962
- Original title
- Закон подлости
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Aleksandr Medvedkin
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Law of Baseness isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1962. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Law of Baseness?
Law of Baseness (1962) was directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin and stars Aleksei Zadachin, Patrice Lumumba, Modibo Keïta.