Based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Moscow, 1920s – the era
of War Communism. Society is in a state of collapse. Professor Preobrazhensky
performs a brilliant operation to transplant a human pituitary gland into an
ordinary mongrel. And by a miracle, the dog begins to transform... Directed by
Vladimir Bortko, who received the RSFSR State Prize in 1990.