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A DOG’S HEART
1988, 2 parts, 130 min., color.
Tragicomedy.
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Nataliya Bortko (based on a story of the same title by Mikhail Bulgakov), camera: Yuri Shaygardanov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov,
music: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Harry Belenki.
Cast: Yevgeni Yevstigneyev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Olga Melikhova, Nina Ruslanova, Lika Nevolina, Roman Kartsev, Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Alexey Mironov, Nataliya Fomenko, Ivan Ganzha, Valentina Kovel, Sergey Filippov, Roman Tkachuk.
Russia, 1920-s. Devastation of “war communism”.
The Petersburg professor Preobrazhenski performs a genius surgery, transplanting a human hypophysis to a common mongrel... And a miracle follows: the dog begins to acquire the appearance of a Homo sapiens...
Main Prize for Best Film at the 13th TV Film Festival(1989).
Main Prize at the 41st IFF “Prix Italia” in Peruggia,
Italy (1989).
Russian State Prize for this film to V. Bortko, Y.
Yevstigneyev and V. Tolokonnikov (1990).
Main Prize “Golden Screen” for Best TV Film of 1989
at the 26th TV Film competition by the magazine “Ekran”
(“Screen”), Poland (1990).
Professional Award of the Lenfilm studios for 1988:
Moskvin-prize to Y. Shaygardanov for Best Camera (1989).
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Lenfilm gold classics