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Morphine (2008) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2008 · 110 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Aleksey Balabanov
- Starring
- Sergey Garmash, Andrei Panin, Agniya Kuznetsova, Katarina Radivojević, Daniil Shigapov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
The story takes place in the Russian countryside during the harsh winter of 1917. A pale, newly educated young doctor arrives in a rural village, faced with a constant stream of medical emergencies. As the townspeople look to him for help, he becomes the center of attention and, to numb the suffering, turns to morphine as an escape.
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