

Heart of a Dog
1988-11-11 · 136 min · ★ 7.9
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.
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- Directors
- Vladimir Bortko
- Production companies
- Lenfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Evgeniy EvstigneevProfessor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy
Boris PlotnikovDoctor Bormental
Vladimir TolokonnikovSharikov
Nina RuslanovaDarya Petrovna
Olga MelikhovaZinochka
Aleksei MironovFyodor
Roman KartsevShvonder
Anzhelika NevolinaVasnetsova
Natalya FomenkoVyazemskaya
Evgeniy KuznetsovPestrukhin
Valentina Kovel
Sergei FilippovThe Patient
Roman TkachukNikolai Nikolayevich Persikov
Aleksey Savostyanov
Yury Eller
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