Morfiy (2008) 7.0
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Director:Aleksey Balabanov |
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Morfiy (2008) 7.0
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Director:Aleksey Balabanov |
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Leonid Bichevin | ... |
Doctor Polyakov Mikhail Alekseyevich
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| Ingeborga Dapkunaite | ... |
Anna Nikolayevna
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Andrey Panin | ... |
Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
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Svetlana Pismichenko | ... |
Pelageya Ivanovna
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Ekaterina Karlovna
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Yuri Gertsman | ... |
Gorenburg
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Aleksandr Mosin | ... |
Vlas
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Irina Rakshina | ... |
Aksinya
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Soborevsky Vasily Osipovich
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Yuliya Deynega | ... |
Tanya
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Andrey Poluyan | ... |
Officer
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Irina Volkova |
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V. Smirnov | ... |
(as Valery Smirnov)
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Petr Rabchevsky |
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Oleg Korytin | ... |
Firefighter
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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. Written by benmo
Powerful and bizarre tale of the young medical doctor sliding into the abyss of drug addiction as the country around him slides into the horrors of civil war. Even so the revolution and the war is hardly shown in the movie (which is set in a small Siberian village), one could feel it's dark presence in every scene, every dialogue. Surprisingly well captures the spirit of autobiographical novels of Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia's greatest and most controversial author of the 20th century. Strongly recommended for everyone who enjoys Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, classical Russian literature and history. Also, it's a great tribute to the director/screenwriter Sergei Bodrov Jr. who died so tragically at the height of his career.