The Law of Life
1940, Russian. Directed by Boris Ivanov & Aleksandr Stolper.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Boris IvanovDirector
- Aleksandr StolperDirector
- Daniil SagalCast
- Oswald GlazunovMatvey Georgievich Babanov
- Nina ZorskayaCast
- Elena KondratevaNina Babanova
- Anna ZaporozhetsCast
- Grigoriy ShpigelCast
- Mikhail SidorkinCast
- Ivan LyubeznovCast
- Aleksei AlekseyevCast
- Fyodor IvanovStudent
- Aleksandr LukyanovYevgeniy Ognerubov, secretary of the komsomol regional committee
- Viktor BubnovOgnerubov's office visitor (uncredited)
Details
- Released
- 7 August 1940
- Original title
- Закон жизни
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Aleksandr Avdeyenko, Sergey Yermolinsky
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The Law of Life runs 101 minutes (1h 41m).
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The Law of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 7 August 1940. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Law of Life?
The Law of Life (1940) was directed by Boris Ivanov and Aleksandr Stolper and stars Daniil Sagal, Oswald Glazunov, Nina Zorskaya.