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Heart of a Dog
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Heart of a Dog

1988-11-11 · 136 min · ★ 7.9

Drama · Comedy · Science Fiction · TV Movie

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 EvstigneevEvgeniy EvstigneevProfessor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy
Boris PlotnikovBoris PlotnikovDoctor Bormental
Vladimir TolokonnikovVladimir TolokonnikovSharikov
Nina RuslanovaNina RuslanovaDarya Petrovna
Olga MelikhovaOlga MelikhovaZinochka
Aleksei MironovAleksei MironovFyodor
Roman KartsevRoman KartsevShvonder
Anzhelika NevolinaAnzhelika NevolinaVasnetsova
Natalya FomenkoNatalya FomenkoVyazemskaya
Evgeniy KuznetsovEvgeniy KuznetsovPestrukhin
Ivan GanzhaZharovkin
Valentina KovelValentina Kovel
Sergei FilippovSergei FilippovThe Patient
Roman TkachukRoman TkachukNikolai Nikolayevich Persikov
Aleksey SavostyanovAleksey Savostyanov
A. Ruden
Yu. Volkov
Anatoly Slivnikov
Yury EllerYury Eller
Yuriy KuznetsovYuriy Kuznetsov

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