Cuore di cane [SEP] based on
Dog's Heart
Cuore di cane (, International title - Dog's Heart) is a 1976 joint Italian-German comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada based on a novel "Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mario Gallo. Screenplay by Alberto Lattuada with Viveca Melander. Composer - Piero Piccioni, editor - Sergio Montanari. Cinematography by Lamberto Caimi. Production companies - Corona Filmproduktion, Filmalpha, distribution by Constantin Film. Runtime - 113 min.
Cast.
- Max von Sydow as "Professor Filipp
("chugun" is cast iron) which can be seen as parody on the name of Stalin ("stal" is steel).
In popular culture.
A comic opera, "The Murder of Comrade Sharik" by William Bergsma (1973), is based on the plot of the story. The story was filmed in Italian in 1976 as "Cuore di cane" and starred Max von Sydow as Preobrazhensky.
A 1988 Soviet movie, "Sobachye Serdtse", was made (in sepia) by