Content Details
Patient Zero
Duration: 7 x 52’
Language: Russian
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2022
Format: HD
Director: Sergey Trofimov, Evgeny Stychkin
Origin: Russia
SYNOPSIS
1988, deep Soviet province. Kirsan Ayushev a young doctor at the children’s hospital in Elista suspects that several of his patients have AIDS. Senior colleagues do not believe that this is possible, so Kirsan secretly sends samples to Moscow. When the tests confirm his correctness, the scientist Dmitry Goncharov, a specialist in a little-known “exotic” disease in the USSR, is involved in the case. Now the future of dozens of children and several adults and possibly the whole country depends on the actions of the capital’s epidemiologist and provincial pediatrician.