Master i Margarita

Master and Margarita

Moscow is visited by Satan in the guise of Woland, a mysterious magician who arrives with a retinue that includes the valet Fagotto, the gun-happy, fast-talking black cat Behemoth, the fanged hit man Azazello, the pale-faced Abadonna and the witch Hella. The havoc wreaked by this group targets the literary elite, its social climbers and their women (wives and mistresses alike) – bureaucrats and profiteers – and, more generally, skeptical unbelievers in the human spirit. The Master is an embittered author who has turned his back on the "real" world, including his devoted lover, Margarita, who refuses to despair of her lover or his work. She accepts an offer made by Satan and becomes a witch with supernatural powers on the night of his Midnight Ball, which coincides with the night of Good Friday. Learning to fly and control her unleashed passions, she enters naked into the world of the night, and, cleansed, returns to Moscow as the hostess for Satan's great Spring Ball. Standing by his side, she welcomes the dark celebrities of human history as they pour up from the opened maw of Hell. She is rewarded: Satan offers to grant Margarita her most cherished wish. She chooses to liberate the Master and live in poverty and love with him.

Russia - 2006 - 3 x 52 mn - 16 mm - Colour

Director
Vladimir Bortko
Script
Vladimir Bortko
based on
Mikhail Boulgakov
Camera
Valery Mulgauch
Sound
Mikhail Viktorov
Editing
Frizheta Gukasyan
Music
Igor Kornelyuk
Cast
Valentin Gaft, Anna Kovalchuk, Alexander Galibin, Sergey Bezrukov

Production
Central Partnership,
1 Zachatievski per. 15,
11 9034 Moscou, Russie
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Co-Production
RTR Planeta

Sales
Central Partnership Sales,
Prechistenskaya enbankment, 13, Build.1, Office 305,
119034 Moscou, Russie
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