Heart of a Dog

Original title: Sobache serdtse

TV Movie
19881988
PGPG
2h 16m

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8.6/10

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Comedy Drama Sci-Fi

In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the sam... Read allIn the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.

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8.6/10

8.3K

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- Vladimir Bortko
- Nataliya Bortko(script)
- Mikhail A. Bulgakov(story)
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Vladimir Tolokonnikov in Heart of a Dog (1988)

Evgeniy Evstigneev, Boris Plotnikov, and Vladimir Tolokonnikov in Heart of a Dog (1988)

Anzhelika Nevolina in Heart of a Dog (1988)

Olga Melikhova and Nina Ruslanova in Heart of a Dog (1988)

Sergey Filippov and Vladimir Tolokonnikov in Heart of a Dog (1988)

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Trivia
A dog named Karai was filmed in the role of Sharik. The owner and trainer of the dog is Yelena Nikiforova. The dog was in the service of the police and by the beginning of filming, the heroic mongrel had 38 arrests on its account. After "Heart of a Dog" Karay starred in four more films.

Quotes
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky: Mind you, Ivan Arnoldovitch, that the only people... who take vodka with cold collations and soup are a few remaining landlords whom the Bolsheviks didn't have time to murder. Anybody with a spark of self-respect takes his hors d'oeuvres hot.

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Featured in Legendy mirovogo kino: Evgeny Evstigneyev

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hilarious, smart, sharp

One of the best screen versions of a great book I've ever seen. The acting is superb! The film is full of bitter satire on the first years of the communist regime and shows its stupidity and utter cruelty. I hardly believed that Bulgakov could be put on the screen with such a delicacy as to preserve the subtle hints and political/satiric subtext that characterizes many of the cultural masterpieces of the communist era. The casting is fantastic and every actor is irreplaceable. The film has reached the status of a cult movie very quickly and many phrases from it have become a part of the modern Russian language. A must see!

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