Produced by Amedia, Kinoprime and Mars Media Entertainment, “The Master and Margarita” cost an estimated $17 million, making it one of the most expensive Russian movies ever made.

Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita". 1930's, Moscow. A famous writer is censored by the Soviet state: his novel is banned, and the theatrical premier of his new play about ...

And the movie has an international cast. Woland, for instance, is played by August Diehl, the German actor. The Master and Margarita is a beloved book in Russia, but it is also part of world culture.

Then we see the writer Berlioz steam-rollered by a human tram in Patriarch’s Ponds (a square not unlike Russell Square, we are told) and his skull split in the form of a cabbage. Paul Rhys as a ...

Upon its release in Russia last January, "The Master and Margarita" quickly shot to the top of the box office, grossing more than 600 million rubles ($6.7 million) in its first week in theaters.

An adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's iconic Russian novel "The Master and Margarita" is inching closer to a Western release as it heads to AFM this week. The feature, directed by Michael Lockshin ...

The Master and Margarita is called "one of the masterpieces of the 20th century" by The Times of London. Edward Kemp's adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's landmark satirical novel is a ...

The devil who comes to Soviet-era Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is the anti-Tinker Bell: You can refuse to believe in him all you want, but it’s only going to piss him off.

And of course, there is Master (the brilliant Jakub Bruscheiser), a romantic/tragic figure, whose maturity is revealed in every little detail he does. He has mastered being a Master.

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Upon its release in Russia last January, “The Master and Margarita” quickly shot to the top of the box office, grossing more than 600 million rubles ($6.7 million) in its first week in theaters.