Like Russian i can say that this movie is targeted not to capture drug addict, but to capture madness of communism revolution, when people kill another people just because of political issues. This is great movie to understand what exactly happened in Russia in 1917 year. Little details showing it perfectly. Especially moment when peasants burned landowner and his family just because hi got estate. Cruel insane of drunken soldiers and inability turn everything back for non communist-minded people, similar to nightmare that becomes real. So this is not really fiction movie for few reasons: 1. It basis on real story of drug addicted doctor from pre-revolution Russia, written by Bulgakov, real non-fiction story. 2. It's really shows details that really existed for that time, shows cruelly as cruel as was that time. I love moment when priest comes to main hero and shrift him, without any words in final. Because in this mad situation the only way for main hero was death, cause 1917 was really such time. This is film about last minutes of normal life in Russia, the time after after which people here never can change everything back. RIP Alexey Balabanov, Царствие тебе Небесное.
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