Russia, 1984. Faced with an illness, Andrei, a meek boy of 11, enters a children's hospital for a long-term stay. But within the crumbling walls he soon discovers a starved community of patients fearfully operating under the piercing watch of the hospital staff. Here Andrei realizes that illness is just one of the things he needs to survive.
Director: Alexei Mizin.
Cast: Den Kamenev, Sandra Bernotaite, Albert Goikhman, Tommy Everson, Alistair Trapnell, Nikita Kokurin, Michael Walker, Kirk Robertson, Craig Norton.
Australia, 2010.
Language: Russian.
Subtitles: English.
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