Morphine

Original title: Morfiy

2008
1h 50m

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A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Director
- Aleksey Balabanov
Writers
- Sergey Bodrov
- Mikhail A. Bulgakov
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7.2/10

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Director
- Aleksey Balabanov
Writers
- Sergey Bodrov
- Mikhail A. Bulgakov
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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Trivia
The title as it is shown in the credits uses old Russian orthography, abandoned after the October Socialist Revolution of 1917.

Connections
Referenced in Vdud (2017)

Soundtracks
Tango Magnolia
Performed by Alexander Vertinsky

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10/10

Hauntingly beautiful!

I rarely watch the same film twice but I watched this film twice within the same week and I feel I could watch it a hundred times. It left me thinking about it for days.

It's a very symbolic film, somewhat humorous (after all, Bulgakov was great at satire) but tragic, as were those times. It's bizarre, alluring, and quite dark.

The film was so beautifully directed by Aleksey Balabanov, and Leonid Bichevin did a stunning job in the title role!

(Some people might find some of the surgical scenes disturbing. Personally, I didn't mind as I've always been fascinated by such things.)