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.

Credits

Aleksey BalabanovDirector

Leonid BichevinDoctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov

Ingeborga DapkūnaitėAnna Nikolayevna

Andrei PaninMedical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko

Svetlana PismichenkoPelageya Ivanovna