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Morphine

Morphine

20086.71h 50m

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.

Directed by Aleksei Balabanov
Written by Sergei Bodrov Jr., Mikhail Bulgakov
Produced by Sergei Selyanov
Box OfficeBudget: $3.6MRevenue: $766K

Top Cast

Leonid Bichevin

Leonid Bichevin

Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Anna Nikolayevna

Andrei Panin

Andrei Panin

Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko

Svetlana Pismichenko

Svetlana Pismichenko

Pelageya Ivanovna

Katarina Radivojević

Katarina Radivojević

Ekaterina Karlovna

Aleksandr Mosin

Aleksandr Mosin

Vlas

Irina Rakshina

Irina Rakshina

Aksinya

Sergey Garmash

Sergey Garmash

Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky

Y

Yulia Deynega

Tanya

A

Andrey Poluyan

Ofitser

Themes & Keywords

amputationdrug addictionmorphinedoctorbased on short storyrussian civil war (1918-21)1910s

About Morphine

Morphine is a drama film released in 2008 exploring themes of amputation, drug addiction, morphine, doctor, based on short story, russian civil war (1918-21). Directed by Aleksei Balabanov, it stars Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin. 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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