Come Here, Mukhtar!
| Come Here, Mukhtar! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Semyon Tumanov [1] |
| Written by | Izrail Metter |
| Starring |
Yiri Nikulin Dyck |
| Music by | Vladimir Rubin |
| Cinematography | Alexander Kharitonov[2] |
| Edited by | Valentina Kulagina |
Production company | |
Release dates | March 13, 1965 |
Running time | 78 min |
| Country |
 Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Come Here, Mukhtar! (Russian: Ко мне, Мухтар!) was a feature film, created in the studio Mosfilm in 1964.
Plot
The film is about mutual devotion police lieutenant Glazychev and shepherd a nickname Mukhtar. Selfless dog, ready to pay for a life of love, helps the owner in the most dangerous situations that almost every day prepares them not an easy service.
History of creation
Mukhtar became the prototype of the heroic dog Sultan, in ten years of police service to take part in five thousand operations detained more than a thousand criminals and the finder of stolen property for a total of three million rubles. After the death of the Sultan of his body was turned into a scarecrow and a detailed description of the merits exhibited at the Museum of Leningrad Criminal Investigation Department, which in 1959 visited the famous Soviet writer Izrail Metter.
Being a great lover of dogs, Metter interested in the fate of this heavy dog and decided to dedicate one of his works of literature.[3]
So there was a psychological novel called "Mukhtar" (the author has changed the dog's name), published in 1960 magazine Novy Mir. The story turned out to be quite successful, and the management of Mosfilm has disposed of its film adaptation, with script writing himself Metter realized.[4]
See also
Cast
- Yuri Nikulin as Lieutenant Glazychev
- dog Dyck as Mukhtar[5]
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Sergey Prokofyevich, Colonel, head of nursery
- Leonid Kmit as Stepan Dugovets
- Yuri Belov as Larionov
- Alla Larionova as Masha, Mukhtar's former mistress
- Fyodor Nikitin as veterinarian Zyryanov
- Nikolai Kryuchkov as police Commissioner
- Sergey Golovanov as Admiral Kolesov
- Lev Durov as a thief-recidivist
- Ivan Ryzhov as captain
- Iya Marx as Fyodor's grandmother
- Ekaterina Savinova as Vera
- Vadim Zakharchenko as investigator