Morphine
Nov 27 2008
•2h 50m
•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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Leonid Bichevin
Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Anna Nikolayevna
Andrei Panin
Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Svetlana Pismichenko
Pelageya Ivanovna
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