Morphine

Nov 27, 2008

1h 50m

★ 6.8

Overview

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

CTB Film Company

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Cast

Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov

Leonid Bichevin

Anna Nikolayevna

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko

Andrei Panin

Pelageya Ivanovna

Svetlana Pismichenko

Ekaterina Karlovna

Katarina Radivojević

Vlas

Aleksandr Mosin

Aksinya

Irina Rakshina

Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky

Sergey Garmash

Tanya

Yulia Deynega

Ofitser

Andrey Poluyan

Firefighter

Oleg Korytin

general

Valeriy Zaytsev

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