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Luka (2013)

Luka (2013)

Drama History
Release Date: 2013, October 11
Directors: Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Countries: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Production: PATRIOT-FILM, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, Ukrainian State Film Agency
Cast: Aleksei Shevchenkov, Ekaterina Guseva, Vitaliy Bezrukov, Andrii Saminin, Victoria Malektorovych

Overview:

Year 1917. Young doctor Valentin Voyno-Yasenetskyj with his wife and four children moved to Tashkent, beset by civil war and intervention. Voyno-Yasenetskyj became head physician in the city hospital. He not only saves hundreds of patients every day, operating under the bullets of the permanent street battles, fighting for his life and life of his beloved wife, dying of TB. In the midst of persecution, he as alone with four children on the outskirts of the former empire, so he decides to become a priest. And since then, he never altered neither scalpel, nor cross, he goes with them through all their hard exiles and arduous life, treating both: body and soul.