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.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Producer: Sergei Selyanov
Screenplay: Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Director of Photography: Aleksandr Simonov
Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Anna Nikolayevna
Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Pelageya Ivanovna
Ekaterina Karlovna
Vlas
Aksinya
Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky