Heart of a Dog
8.5
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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Evgeniy Evstigneev
Professor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy
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Boris Plotnikov
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Vladimir Tolokonnikov
Sharikov
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Nina Ruslanova
Darya Petrovna
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Olga Melikhova
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Roman Kartsev
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Natalya Fomenko
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Evgeniy Kuznetsov
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Vladimir Bortko Director · Nataliya Bortko Screenplay Mikhail Bulgakov Author
Budget $5M · United States release November 11, 1988 · Produced in Russia, Russia
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Budget
$5,000,000
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Собачье сердце
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
United States · November 11, 1988
Theatrical
Russia
November 20, 1988 · TV
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