Sharikov angrily refuses and draws a revolver. The doctor then demands for Sharikov to leave the apartment immediately for good. Bormental, see all of their efforts to reform Sharikov fail.Īfter a series of worsening conflicts, the doctor learns that Sharikov has attempted to denounce him to the Soviet secret police. Preobrazhensky and his friend and assistant, Dr. Eventually, Sharikov turns life in the doctor's house into a nightmare by stealing money, breaking his furniture, flooding the apartment during a cat chase, and blackmailing into marriage a girl he met at the cinema.
He picks for himself the absurd name Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, starts working at the "Moscow Cleansing Sub-Department responsible for eliminating vagrant quadrupeds (cats, etc.)," and associating with revolutionaries, who plot to drive the doctor out of his big apartment. After his transition to human is complete, it turns out that he inherited all the negative traits of the donor (bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking), but he still hates cats. Sharik proceeds to become more and more human during the following days.
The doctor implants a pituitary gland and testicles of a recently-deceased alcoholic and petty criminal, Klim Chugunkin, into Sharik. He finds out too late that he is needed as a test animal. The dog is named Sharik and well taken care of by the doctor's maids, but he still wonders why he is there. A well-off and well-known surgeon and professor, Philipp Philippovich Preobrazhensky, happens to need a dog and, with a piece of sausage, lures the animal to his large house with an annexed practice. A complaining stray dog looks for food and shelter. The film is set in Moscow not long after the October Revolution. The novel written in 1925 was censored in the Soviet Union, but during perestroika, it was adapted for Soviet television. Premiering show of the film aired on 20 November 1988 at 18:45 on the Central Television Programme One. It is based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Heart of a Dog. Sobachye serdtse) is a black-and-white 1988 Soviet television film directed by Vladimir Bortko.
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