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The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.
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Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
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Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
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En "Corazón de perro" un médico que investiga el rejuvenecimiento humano implanta en el cerebro de un vapuleado, pero amable y reflexivo perro callejero, la hipófisis de un delincuente. El perro, lejos de rejuvenecer, se transforma en un ser humano física y moralmente repulsivo, que termina por afiliarse al partido comunista y consigue ser nombrado "subdirector del subdepartamento de limpieza de animales vagabundos", convirtiendo la vida del atribulado científico en una pesadilla.
