Morphine

Mikhail Polyakov (Leonid Bichevin) is a newly qualified doctor who wants to do the job well, and he gets his chance in the winter of 1917, posted to a hospital in the Russian countryside. The cases arrive one after another, and so does the attention of everyone around him. Aleksei Balabanov follows him through the cold weeks, the doctor pale and alone, reaching again and again for the morphine.