Sobachye Serdtse

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Sobachye Serdtse
Directed by Vladimir Bortko
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov (novel)
Vladimir Bortko (screenplay)
Starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Boris Plotnikov
Vladimir Tolokonnikov
Music by Vladimir Dashkevich
Distributed by Lenfilm
Release date(s) November 19, 1988
Running time 131 min.
Country USSR
Language Russian
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Sobachye Serdtse (Russian: Собачье сердце, meaning heart of a dog) is a black-and-white Soviet two series movie based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Heart of a Dog, filmed in 1988.

[edit] Style

Professor Preobrazhensky and Sharikov
Professor Preobrazhensky and Sharikov

Movie is filmed as black-and-white to give a feeling of an old film: it is set in Moscow not long after the October Revolution.

[edit] Cast

  • Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Professor Preobrazhensky
  • Boris Plotnikov as Dr. Bormental
  • Vladimir Tolokonnikov as Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov
  • Nina Ruslanova as Darya
  • Roman Kartsev as Shvonder
  • Olga Melikhova as Zina
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