Synopsis:
The film is based on one chapter from Fazil Iskander`s epic Sandro from the Village of Chegem. It tells a story about one feast of Josef Stalin and his closest entourage. Sandro from the village of Chegem appeared as an Abkhaz folk dancing performer at this feast. This routine performance turned into a nightmare after he returned home as the purges of artists who attended the feast were about to begin. The year was 1935…Read More »
Professor Preobrazhensky and his colleague place some human parts into a dog named Sharik. Soon the dog transforms into a human.
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This movie (and yes, it’s a movie – it was shot as a two-parter, but the two parts together come down to slightly more than 2 hours) is one of the unsung masterpieces of world cinema. A very well-mannered, and yet at the same time absolutely savage denunciation of the Soviet regime and the type of person who flourished under it, the film is a faithful adaptation of the long-banned eponymous book by Mikhail Bulgakov. Read More »