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.
                                    Leonid Bichevin
Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
                                    Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Anna Nikolayevna
                                    Andrei Panin
Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
                                    Svetlana Pismichenko
Pelageya Ivanovna
                                    Katarina Radivojević
Ekaterina Karlovna
                                    Aleksandr Mosin
Vlas
                                    Irina Rakshina
Aksinya
                                    Sergey Garmash
Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky
                                    Valeriy Zaytsev
general
                                    Daniil Shigapov
clerk
                                    Elena Andreeva
Lidka's mother
                                    Lidiya Dorotenko
barefoot woman without skirt
                                    Yuri Gertsman
Лев Аронович Горенбург - фельдшер
                                    Darya Tsiberkina
beautiful woman
                                    Anastasiya Dyukova
counterman's sister
                                    Nina Antonova
                                    Agniya Kuznetsova
nurse
                                    Yuliya Khamitova
                                    Aleksey Poluyan
сосед
                                    Valeriy Vasilyev
страшный мужик