Come Here, Mukhtar!
| Come Here, Mukhtar! | |
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| Directed by | Semyon Tumanov [1] |
| Written by | Izrail Metter |
| Starring |
Yuri Nikulin Dyck Vladimir Yemelyanov Leonid Kmit |
| Music by | Vladimir Rubin |
| Cinematography | Alexander Kharitonov[2] |
| Edited by | Valentina Kulagina |
Production company | |
Release date | March 13, 1965 |
Running time | 78 min |
| Country |
 Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Come Here, Mukhtar! (Russian: Ко мне, Мухтар!, translit. Ko mne, Mukhtar!) is a 1964 drama film directed by Semyon Tumanov.
Plot
The film is about mutual devotion of police lieutenant Glazychev and shepherd nicknamed Mukhtar. Selfless dog, ready to pay its life, helps the owner in most dangerous situations that almost every day are prepared for them at the uneasy service.
History of creation
Mukhtar had a prototype of the heroic dog Sultan, in ten years of police service it took part in five thousand operations, detained more than a thousand criminals and found stolen property worth of three million rubles. After the death of the Sultan his body was turned into a stuffed animal and with detailed description of the merits exhibited at the Museum of Leningrad Criminal Investigation Department, which in 1959 was visited by the famous Soviet writer Izrail Metter.
Being a great lover of dogs, Metter became interested in the fate of this dog and decided to dedicate one of his works of literature.[3]
So there was a psychological novel called "Mukhtar" (the author has changed the dog's name), published in 1960 magazine Novy Mir. The story turned out to be quite successful, and the management of Mosfilm has started its film adaptation, with scriptwriting by Metter himself.[4]
See also
Cast
- Yuri Nikulin as Lieutenant Glazychev
- dog Dyke as Mukhtar[5]
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Sergey Prokofyevich, Colonel, head of nursery
- Leonid Kmit as Stepan Dugovets
- Yuri Belov as Larionov
- Alla Larionova as Masha, Mukhtar's former mistress
- Fyodor Nikitin as veterinarian Zyryanov
- Nikolai Kryuchkov as police Commissioner
- Sergey Golovanov as Admiral Kolesov
- Lev Durov as a thief-recidivist
- Ivan Ryzhov as captain
- Iya Marx as Fyodor's grandmother
- Ekaterina Savinova as Vera
- Vadim Zakharchenko as investigator