Heart of a Dog (1988)
In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
- Released
- 1988-11-11
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vladimir Bortko, Nataliya Bortko
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 from 210 votes
Cast
- Evgeniy Evstigneev as Professor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy
- Boris Plotnikov as Doctor Bormental
- Vladimir Tolokonnikov as Sharikov
- Nina Ruslanova as Darya Petrovna
- Olga Melikhova as Zinochka
- Aleksei Mironov as Fyodor
- Roman Kartsev as Shvonder
- Anzhelika Nevolina as Vasnetsova
- Natalya Fomenko as Vyazemskaya
- Evgeniy Kuznetsov as Pestrukhin
- Ivan Ganzha as Zharovkin
- Valentina Kovel
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