A bored doctor in an Indian village spends evenings at home drinking whiskey and smoking opium after seeing patients. One day, an Englishwoman comes to him and asks him to have an abortion on her. The doctor, knowing that it is illegal, refuses her this service. But after the woman leaves, he begins to be tormented by a sense of shame from an unfulfilled medical duty, and he rushes in search of her.
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Screening of Stefan Zweig's famous novel "Amok" directed by theater reformer Konstantin Mardzhanov and which marks a return to the aesthetics of the Silver Age of Soviet cinema of the 1920s.