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Morphine
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.
2008 · Directed by Aleksei Balabanov · 110 min · Drama · 10 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Sergei Bodrov Jr.
- Cinematography: Aleksandr Simonov
- Edited by: Tatyana Kuzmichyova
- Production design: Pavel Parkhomenko, Anastasiya Karimulina
- Produced by: Sergei Selyanov
Cast
- Leonid Bichevin as Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Anna Nikolayevna
- Andrei Panin as Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
- Svetlana Pismichenko as Pelageya Ivanovna
- Katarina Radivojević as Ekaterina Karlovna
- Aleksandr Mosin as Vlas
- Irina Rakshina as Aksinya
- Sergey Garmash as Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky
- Yulia Deynega as Tanya
- Andrey Poluyan as Ofitser
Production
- Country: Russia
- Language: Russian
- Studios: CTB Film Company
- Budget: $3,600,000
- Box office: $766,075
- Themes: amputation, drug addiction, morphine, doctor, based on short story, russian civil war (1918-21), 1910s
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