

The Year of the Dog
1994, Russian. Directed by Semyon Aranovich.
Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Semyon AranovichDirector
- Inna ChurikovaVera Morozova
- Igor SklyarSergey Kozhin (byvshiy zek)
- Aleksandr FeklistovLobanov
- Mikhail DorofeevCast
- Robert VaabCast
- Aleksei NilovSosed Very (net v titrakh)
- Era ZiganshinaCast
- Gennadiy MenshikovCast
- Valentina KovelCast
- Irina PolyanskayaCast
- Tatyana ZakharovaCast
- Viktor SukhorukovCast
Details
- Released
- 1 February 1994
- Original title
- Год собаки
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Zoya Kudrya, Vadim Mikhaylov, Albina Shulgina
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The Year of the Dog runs 133 minutes (2h 13m).
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The Year of the Dog isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 February 1994. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Year of the Dog?
The Year of the Dog (1994) was directed by Semyon Aranovich and stars Inna Churikova, Igor Sklyar, Aleksandr Feklistov.