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When a middle-aged high-court judge in 19th-century Russia starts to experience a sharp pain in his side, he soon finds himself bedridden with an undiagnosed terminal illness. Face-to-face with his own mortality, he becomes increasingly introspective and emotional as he ponders the reason for his acute suffering and imminent death.
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Original Language
RU

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On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.