Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Leonid Bichevin
Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Lead
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Anna Nikolayevna
Andrei Panin
Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Svetlana Pismichenko
Pelageya Ivanovna
Katarina Radivojević
Ekaterina Karlovna
Aleksandr Mosin
Vlas
Irina Rakshina
Aksinya
Sergey Garmash
Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Aleksei Balabanov's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Morphine is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
