![]() ![]() Unlike the book with the same name, the film was not only based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “Heart of a Dog,” but also on his other works. ![]() Another operation is quickly done, and Sharikov becomes Sharik once again. Sharik - now Sharikov - goes out into the world and gets a job catching and strangling stray cats and eventually denounces the professor and his assistant to the secret police. Sharik slowly becomes transformed into the “new Soviet man” - crude, violent, and ruled by his base instincts. ![]() After fattening him up, he implants in Sharik the pituitary gland and testicles of a recently murdered violent, alcoholic thief. “Transformation”), a brilliant surgeon tolerated by the young Soviet regime despite his ardent opposition to Bolshevism, takes in a stray dog and names him Sharik (“Little Ball”). The premiere of the film took place in 1988, exactly one year after the publication of the novel in the Soviet Union Bulgakov wrote it in 1925 but was never able to publish it. This film is the most famous adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's story of the same name. This year will mark 30 years since the release of the Soviet cult film “Heart of a Dog” directed by Vladimir Bortko. ![]()
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