125 min.
In Russian.

Adapted from the story by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Originally broadcast on Soviet TV in 1988.
Director: Vladimir Bortko.
Screenwriter: Nataliia Bortko.
Director of photography: Georgii Mautkin.
Cinematography: Yuri Shaigardanov.
Music: Vladimir Dashkevich.
Editor: Leda Semenova.
Cast: Evgenii Evstigneev, Roman Kartsev, Boris Plotnikov, Ivan Ganzha, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Nina Ruslanova, Olga Melikhova, Aleksei Mironov, Anzhelika Nevolina, Natalia Fomenko, Evgenii Kuznetsov.

Summary
In the early 1920's after the Soviet Revolution, a scientist and his assitant perform an operation to change a stray dog into a human. This new being has the sophistication of a dog, in a world of human situations. He develops into a cruel, lying, stealing, dangerous man, and the scientists perform a reverse operation, to change this being back into a dog.