Heart of a Dog

A darkly comic, surreal satire of post-revolutionary Russia that uses animal-to-human transformation as a vehicle for exploring class, science, and social upheaval.

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.