Synopsis
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.
Key facts
Cast
Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko, Katarina Radivojević, Aleksandr Mosin, Irina Rakshina, Sergey Garmash
Original language
Russian
First release
November 27, 2008 (Russia)
Production companies
STV
Based on
Morphine
Setting
Russia
Crew
Screenplay
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Producer
Sergei Selyanov
Cinematography
Aleksandr Simonov
Editing
Tatyana Kuzmichyova
Stills
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Festival History
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | Russia | November 27, 2008 |
Full credits
| Director | Aleksei Balabanov |
| Cast | Leonid Bichevin (Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (Anna Nikolayevna), Andrei Panin (Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko), Svetlana Pismichenko (Pelageya Ivanovna), Katarina Radivojević (Ekaterina Karlovna), Aleksandr Mosin (Vlas), Irina Rakshina (Aksinya), Sergey Garmash (Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky), Yulia Deynega (Tanya), Andrey Poluyan (Ofitser), Oleg Korytin (Firefighter), Valeriy Zaytsev (general), Daniil Shigapov (clerk), Elena Andreeva (Lidka's mother), Lidiya Dorotenko (barefoot woman without skirt), Yuri Gertsman (Лев Аронович Горенбург - фельдшер), Darya Tsiberkina (beautiful woman), Anastasiya Dyukova (counterman's sister), Nina Antonova, Agniya Kuznetsova (nurse), Yuliya Khamitova, Aleksey Poluyan (сосед), Valeriy Vasilyev (страшный мужик), Aleksey Istomin (Osip Vasilyevich) |
| Screenplay | Sergei Bodrov Jr. |
| Producer | Sergei Selyanov |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Simonov |
| Editing | Tatyana Kuzmichyova |
| Production design | Anastasiya Karimulina, Pavel Parkhomenko |
| Costumes | Nadezhda Vasileva |
Additional data: TMDB.
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