Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
Frame from the film showing the dog's head attached to Brukhonenko's autojektor
Directed by	David Yashin [ru]
Written by	Sergei Brukhonenko
Starring	Sergei Brukhonenko
Narrated by	J. B. S. Haldane (English)
Cinematography	Yekaterina Kashina
Animation by	Alexander Prozorov
Production company	Moscow Studio of Technical Films [ru]
Release date	1940 (1940)
Running time	19 minutes (Russian) 20 minutes (English)
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Russian English

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Russian: О́пыты по оживле́нию органи́зма) is a 1940 documentary film directed by David Yashin [ru] that purports to document Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. The English version of the film begins with British scientist J. B. S. Haldane giving an introduction.

The operations in the film, as well as the design of the heart-lung machine demonstrated in it, the autojektor, were done by Sergei Brukhonenko, whose work is said to have led to the first operations on heart valves. While the experiments shown are generally considered to have taken place, the legitimacy of the film itself is controversial.