The Year of the Dog (film)
# The Year of the Dog (film)

The Year of the Dog (Russian: Год собаки, romanized: God sobaki) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Semyon Aranovich. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.

## Plot

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.

## Cast

* Inna Churikova as Vera
* Igor Sklyar as Sergej
* Aleksandr Feklistov
* Era Ziganshina
* Mikhail Dorofeyev
* Sergei Bobrov
* Gennadi Menshikov
* Valentina Kovel
* Robert Vaab
* Diana Shishlyayeva
* Irina Polyanskaya
* Dmitri Kruglov
* Tatyana Zakharova
* Marina Yuldasheva
* Viktor Sukhorukov
