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 very popular 1988 Soviet movie, Sobachye Serdtse, was made (in sepia) by Vladimir Bortko. Major sequences in the movie were famously shot from an unusually low dog's point of view.
In 2007, Guerilla Opera staged the Premier of "Heart of a Dog", a new opera composed by Rudolf Rojahn, directed by Sally Stunkel. In 2010, the second production was directed by Copeland Woodruff.
In 2010 Dutch National Opera staged the Premier of "A Dog's Heart", a new opera composed by Alexander Raskatov, directed by Simon McBurney.
In March 2011, "Heart of a Dog" was staged at the University of Leeds, directed by James Ahearne and Matthew Beaumont.
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