Morphine

2008 film by Aleksei Balabanov

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6.8

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.

Released: 2008-11-27110 minDir: Aleksei BalabanovDramaBudget: $3.6MBox office: $766,075

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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

Themes

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

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Ratings

IMDb

7.2/10

4,713 votes

Year: 2008
Runtime: 110 min
Genres: Drama

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