title: The Year of the Dog (film)
text: # The Year of the Dog (film)
  
  The Year of the Dog (Russian: Год собаки, romanized: God sobaki) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Semyon Aranovich. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.
  
  ## Plot
  
  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.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Inna Churikova as Vera
  * Igor Sklyar as Sergej
  * Aleksandr Feklistov
  * Era Ziganshina
  * Mikhail Dorofeyev
  * Sergei Bobrov
  * Gennadi Menshikov
  * Valentina Kovel
  * Robert Vaab
  * Diana Shishlyayeva
  * Irina Polyanskaya
  * Dmitri Kruglov
  * Tatyana Zakharova
  * Marina Yuldasheva
  * Viktor Sukhorukov
  