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Morphine (2008)

Morphine (2008)

Drama
Release Date: 2008, November 27
Directors: Aleksei Balabanov
Countries: Russia
Production: CTB Film Company
Cast: Sergey Garmash, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Aleksandr Mosin, Elena Andreeva, Irina Rakshina, Svetlana Pismichenko, Katarina Radivojević, Leonid Bichevin, Andrei Panin, Agniya Kuznetsova, Lidiya Dorotenko, Aleksey Poluyan

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.

Keywords:

doctor based on short story drug addiction 1910s morphine russian civil war (1918-21) amputation