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In 1980, Vladimir Bortko became production leader in the Kinostudiya Lenfilm in Leningrad, the largest film production company of the Soviet Union after Mosfilm in Moscow. He received relative fame in the Soviet Union, but his big breakthrough he realized with the film adaptation of the novel "Heart of a Dog" written by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. He was awarded it a Grand Prix at the Film Festival in Perugia.