Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

1988 · 136 min · RU · 7.9 (209 votes)
Dir. Vladimir Bortko · Starring Evgeniy Evstigneev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Nina Ruslanova, Olga Melikhova, Aleksei Mironov · Music Vladimir Dashkevich
DramaComedyScience FictionTV 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.

VIBE

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)wonderanimal transformationfarce