The Master and Margarita (2024)

Director: Michael Lockshin
Starring: August Diehl, Yulia Snigir, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksey Rozin, Polina Aug

The action takes place in Moscow of the 1930s. A famous writer at a high point of his career suddenly finds himself at the center of a literature scandal. His play is withdrawn from the repertoire, his colleagues evidently avoid him, and he becomes an outsider in a very few days. In a short time, he meets Margarita, who becomes his lover and muse. Encouraged with her love and support, the writer starts writing a new novel where the characters are people from his environment and the protagonist is the mysterious Woland, his prototype is a recent foreigner acquaintance. The writer immerses himself into the world of the novel and gradually stops noticing how fiction and reality become intertwined into one.

The film is loosely based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.

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