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.

• CTB Film Company
• Leonid Bichevin
• Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
• Andrei Panin
• Svetlana Pismichenko
• Katarina Radivojević
• Aleksandr Mosin
• Irina Rakshina
• Sergey Garmash