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Morphine
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Morphine

2008-11-27 · 110 min · ★ 6.8

Drama

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.

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Production details

Directors
Aleksei Balabanov
Production companies
CTB Film Company
Countries
Russia
Status
Released
Budget
USD 3,600,000
Revenue
USD 766,075

Top Cast

Leonid BichevinLeonid BichevinDoctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Ingeborga DapkūnaitėIngeborga DapkūnaitėAnna Nikolayevna
Andrei PaninAndrei PaninMedical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Svetlana PismichenkoSvetlana PismichenkoPelageya Ivanovna
Katarina RadivojevićKatarina RadivojevićEkaterina Karlovna
Aleksandr MosinAleksandr MosinVlas
Irina RakshinaIrina RakshinaAksinya
Sergey GarmashSergey GarmashVasily Osipovich Soborevsky
Yulia DeynegaTanya
Andrey PoluyanOfitser
Oleg KorytinFirefighter
Valeriy ZaytsevValeriy Zaytsevgeneral
Daniil ShigapovDaniil Shigapovclerk
Elena AndreevaElena AndreevaLidka's mother
Lidiya DorotenkoLidiya Dorotenkobarefoot woman without skirt
Yuri GertsmanYuri GertsmanЛев Аронович Горенбург - фельдшер
Darya TsiberkinaDarya Tsiberkinabeautiful woman
Anastasiya DyukovaAnastasiya Dyukovacounterman's sister
Nina AntonovaNina Antonova
Agniya KuznetsovaAgniya Kuznetsovanurse

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