Heart of a Dog
83
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Worth a look
1988 · Movie · 2h 16m
The read
A Balasaur Score of 83 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.5/10.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.5/10
200 audience votes
Key crew
- Vladimir BortkoDirector
- Nataliya BortkoScreenplay
- Vladimir DashkevichOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Evgeniy EvstigneevProfessor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy
- Boris PlotnikovDoctor Bormental
- Vladimir TolokonnikovSharikov
- Nina RuslanovaDarya Petrovna
- Olga MelikhovaZinochka
- Aleksei MironovFyodor
- Roman KartsevShvonder
- Anzhelika NevolinaVasnetsova
- Natalya FomenkoVyazemskaya
- Evgeniy KuznetsovPestrukhin
- Ivan GanzhaZharovkin
- Valentina KovelCast
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Themes
experimentrussian revolution (1917)wonderanimal transformationfarce
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