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.
Леонид Бичевин
as Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
as Anna Nikolayevna
Андрей Панин
as Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Светлана Письмиченко
as Pelageya Ivanovna
Katarina Radivojević
as Ekaterina Karlovna
Александр Мосин
as Vlas
Ирина Ракшина
as Aksinya
Сергей Гармаш
as Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky
Yulia Deynega
as Tanya
Andrey Poluyan
as Ofitser
Олег Корытин
as Firefighter
Валерий Зайцев
as general
