Professor Dowell's Testament (1984)

Original title

Завещание профессора Доуэля

Directed by

Leonid Menaker

Genre

drama film, science fiction film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist secretly keeps the severed head of a colleague alive in a laboratory. A young woman working as a medical assistant becomes involved in this forbidden experiment.

suspensefulcerebraldarkbroodingclinicalunsettlingslow-burnmelancholic

What happens

Professor Dowell's Testament (Russian: Завещание профессора Доуэля, romanized: Zaveschanie professora Douelya) is a 1984 Soviet science fiction drama film directed by Leonid Menaker, loosely based on the 1925 novel Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belyaev. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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