Valeriy Zaytsev

Morphine

Alexey Balabanov

Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

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.