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.
Key credits listed on this page include Aleksei Balabanov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Mikhail Bulgakov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko, and Katarina Radivojević.