Film
The story was filmed in Italian in 1976 as Cuore di cane and starred Max von Sydow as Preobrazhensky.[12]
A 1988 Soviet movie of the same name was made (in sepia) by Vladimir Bortko.[13] A number of sequences in the movie were shot from an unusually low dog's point of view.
Play
In March 2011, Heart of a Dog was staged at the University of Leeds, directed by James Ahearne and Matthew Beaumont.[14]
Musical
A new musical adaptation of Heart of a Dog was developed in Australia and was to premiere in May 2013,[15] written by Jim McGrath, composed by Marc Robertson and directed by Nick Byrne.[16]
Opera
A comic opera The Murder of Comrade Sharik by William Bergsma (1973) is based on the plot of the story.
In 2007, Guerilla Opera staged the premiere of Heart of a Dog, an opera by Rudolf Rojahn, directed by Sally Stunkel. In 2010, the second production was directed by Copeland Woodruff.[17]
In 2010 De Nederlandse Opera staged the premiere of A Dog's Heart, an opera composed by Alexander Raskatov, directed by Simon McBurney.[18] This was staged again by the Opéra de Lyon in January 2014.
