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.
Fun facts
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Box office
Grossed $766K worldwide against a $3.6M budget
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Based on
Based on Morphine
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Setting
Set in Russia
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Aleksandr Simonov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Sergei Bodrov Jr.Screenplay
- Mikhail BulgakovNovel
- Original title
- Морфий
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 27, 2008
- Original language
- Russian
- Budget
- $3.6M
- Revenue
- $766.1K
- Countries
- Russia
Production
Cast
Leonid BichevinDoctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Ingeborga DapkūnaitėAnna Nikolayevna
Andrei PaninMedical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Svetlana PismichenkoPelageya Ivanovna
Katarina RadivojevićEkaterina Karlovna
Aleksandr MosinVlas
Irina RakshinaAksinya
Sergey GarmashVasily Osipovich Soborevsky- Yulia DeynegaTanya
- Andrey PoluyanOfitser
- Oleg KorytinFirefighter
Valeriy Zaytsevgeneral
Daniil Shigapovclerk
Elena AndreevaLidka's mother
Lidiya Dorotenkobarefoot woman without skirt
Yuri GertsmanЛев Аронович Горенбург - фельдшер
Darya Tsiberkinabeautiful woman
Anastasiya Dyukovacounterman's sister
Nina Antonova
Agniya Kuznetsovanurse
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