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The dispute marks the latest plot twist for Lockshin’s big-budget adaptation of the iconic novel, which was written by the Kyiv-born Soviet novelist Mikhail Bulgakov and published posthumously ...

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Inspired by The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov’s Soviet-era satire, Black Magic Rock Show cycles back and forth between 1930s Russia and the present, creating, in Dinkova’s words, “a ...

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