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Patient Zero

2022 · 1 season

A grim, slow-burning medical drama that immerses you in a tense, tragic historical crisis, demanding emotional endurance.

Created by
Maxim Ivanov
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Askar Ilyasov, Nikita Efremov, Elizaveta Shakira
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.

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Created by
Maxim Ivanov
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Askar Ilyasov, Nikita Efremov, Elizaveta Shakira
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • isolation
  • family
  • survival
  • morality
Places
  • hospital
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, mystery
Created by
Maxim Ivanov
Written by
Oleg Malovichko
Starring
Askar Ilyasov, Nikita Efremov, Elizaveta Shakira, Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Evgeniy Stychkin, Pavel Maykov, Igor Gordin, Victoria Agalakova
Cinematography
Sergey Trofimov, Sergey Korobov
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 48 min each
Network
Kinopoisk
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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