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The film takes place in late autumn and early winter of 1917 during the events of the October Revolution and the beginning of the Russian Civil War. A young Russian doctor called Mikhail Polyakov ( Leonid Bichevin) arrives at a small hospital in a remote village in Yaroslavl Governorate.
Nov 27, 2008 · With Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko. A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- (4.1K)
- Drama
- Aleksey Balabanov
- 2008-11-27
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.
- (3.4K)
- CTB Film Company
- Aleksey Balabanov
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The young doctor Polyakov arrives to work at a hospital in a remote village. After an allergic reaction to a vaccine, he starts to take morphine. Soon, he finds himself trying to undertake more...
- (60)
- Aleksey Balabanov
- Drama
- Katarina Radivojevic
Powerful and bizarre tale of the young medical doctor sliding into the abyss of drug addiction as the country around him slides into the horrors of civil war. Even so the revolution and the war is hardly shown in the movie (which is set in a small Siberian village), one could feel it's dark presence in every scene, every dialogue.
Morphine is a Russian film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. It is based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of Mikhail Bulgakov.. In the late fall and early winter of 1917 during the events of the October Revolution and the beginning of the Russian Civil War, a young Russian doctor named Mikhail Polyakov arrives at a small hospital in a remote village in the Yaroslavl Governorate.
