Morphine

(2008)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 88 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2008

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Russia

Director: Алексей Балабанов

Cast: Леонид Бичевин, Ингеборга Дапкунайте, Андрей Панин, Светлана Письмиченко, Katarina Radivojević, Александр Мосин, Ирина Ракшина, Сергей Гармаш, Yulia Deynega, Andrey Poluyan

Plot

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.