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Doctor Lisa
The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
[RussianFF] A necessary film about the activist Elizaveta Glinka who builds her complex personality through a single day, which is a clever approach that avoids the traditional biopic. But the film doesn't take risks, it's too conventional, and it creates a protagonist who is as strong as the rest of the characters have little entity. Through irony it manages to be expressive without falling into sentimentality.