Patient Zero

Patient Zero

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Release Date

5/19/2022

Runtime

7 eps, 336 mins

Overview

USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.

Status

Ended

Original Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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A harrowing chronicle of an HIV outbreak in a Soviet children's hospital that becomes a struggle for humanity amid medical catastrophe and institutional indifference. The series finds quiet dignity and resilience in the faces of those fighting an incomprehensible tragedy.

Mood

MelancholicTenseContemplativeDefiant

Themes

MortalitySurvivalFamilyJusticeFaith

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Child endangerment

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Patient Zero (2022) directed by Sergey Trofimov | FirstCinema