Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

1988 · 136 min · RU · 7.7 (136 votes)
Dir. Vladimir Bortko · Starring Evgeniy Evstigneev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Nina Ruslanova, Olga Melikhova, Aleksei Mironov · Music Vladimir Dashkevich
DramaComedyScience Fiction

Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. A couple of weeks later, the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?"

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A darkly comic and philosophical journey into the absurd. This film uses a bizarre experiment to probe the very nature of humanity and societal constructs, leaving you questioning what it truly means to be human.

absurdistsatiricaldarkly comicphilosophicalsteadySoviet-era satirephilosophical sci-fiblack and whitehumanityidentitysocial commentaryscience ethics
experimentrussian revolution (1917)animal transformation
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