The Master and Margarita (1994 film)

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The Master and Margarita (1994 film)

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The Master and Margarita
Blu-Ray Disc cover
Based on	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Starring	Anastasiya Vertinskaya Viktor Rakov Valentin Gaft Sergey Garmash Mikhail Ulyanov Aleksandr Filippenko Viktor Pavlov Nikolai Burlyayev Vyacheslav Shalevich Vladimir Steklov
Music by	Alfred Schnittke
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
Production
Running time	123 minutes (theatrical) 207 minutes (director's cut)
Original release
Release	4 April 2011 (2011-04-04)

The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) is a Russian film made by director Yuri Kara, based on the novel of the same name by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov.^[1]

Background

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Although the film was made in 1994^[2] (or 1993),^[3] it was not released until April 4, 2011, and played only in Russia. Despite its large budget and a well-known cast, the producers decided not to release it because they found the director's cut to be unacceptable. The soundtrack, recorded by Alfred Schnittke, was released on CD.

When journalist Valeriy Kitshin of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta saw the film in a private screening at the Moscow International Film Festival in 2005, he tried to convince the producers to release it. However, Sergey Shilovsky, the grandson of Mikhail Bulgakov's third wife Elena Sergeevna, claimed to have the copyright on Bulgakov's literary inheritance, and asked for payment. Shilovsky eventually sold the rights to producer Scott Steindorff of Stone Village Productions, who commissioned Caroline Thompson to write the script.

A bootleg low-quality version, 200 minutes long, was leaked on the internet in December 2006.

On November 15, 2010, the Russian film distributor Luxor announced that they had bought the rights to the film. It was on April 4, 2011. Luxor shortened the film to 123 minutes from the original director's cut, which was 207 minutes long. The theatrical version was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 3, 2011.

Plot

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The film is an adaptation of the novel The Master and Margarita by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Three storylines are interwoven. The first is a satire of the 1930s, the period during which Joseph Stalin is in power in the Soviet Union. The devil Woland comes to Moscow to have his annual spring ball of the full moon. He and his companions challenge corrupt bureaucrats and profiteers. The second story, set in Jerusalem, describes the inner struggle of Pontius Pilate before, during, and after the conviction and execution of Jesus. The third part tells the love story between a nameless writer in Moscow in the 1930s and his lover, Margarita. He has written a novel on Pontius Pilate, a subject which was taboo in the officially anti-religious atheistic Soviet Union.

Soundtrack

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The "bolero" in the soundtrack references Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Meister und Margarita I - 1:47
Voland - 2:26
Foxtrot - 1:04
Tango - 0:59
Marche Funebre - 1:12
Boléro (Maurice Ravel) - 15:00
Meister und Margarita II - 1:50

All tracks composed by Alfred Schnittke, except the Boléro.

References

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^ "Фильм "Мастер и Маргарита" выходит 7 апреля — OpenSpace.ru" (in Russian). os.colta.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
^ "Россияне, возможно, не увидят первую экранизацию романа Булгакова" (in Russian). Российская газета. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
^ "Открытые данные Министерства культуры России" (in Russian). opendata.mkrf.ru. Archived from the original on 2022-06-15. Retrieved 2020-04-14.

External links

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(in English) The Master and Margarita at IMDb
(in English, French, Dutch, and Russian) Master i Margarita (Yuri Kara) on the Master & Margarita website

v t e The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Characters	Master Margarita Woland Behemoth Azazello Korovyev
Adaptations	Pilate and Others (1972 film) The Master and Margaret (1972 film) The Master and Margarita (1988 TV series) Der Meister und Margarita (1989 opera) Incident in Judaea (1991 film) The Master and Margarita (1994 film) The Master and Margarita (2005 miniseries) The Master and Margarita (2024 film)

v t e Alfred Schnittke
List of compositions
Stage works	Historia von D. Johann Fausten Life with an Idiot
Orchestral music	Symphony No. 0 Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 2 (St. Florian) Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No. 4) Symphony No. 6 Symphony No. 7 Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 In Memoriam...
Concertante	Concerto Grosso No. 1 Concerto Grosso No. 3 Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra Viola Concerto Violin Concerto No. 4
Chamber music	Piano Quintet
Vocal music	Nagasaki
Collaborations	Requiem of Reconciliation
Film scores	Introduction to Life (1963) Adventures of a Dentist (1965) Commissar (1967) The Glass Harmonica (1968) Sport, Sport, Sport (1970) Belorussian Station (1971) You and Me (1971) The Seagull (1972) Autumn (1974) Agony (1975) How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) The Ascent (1977) Story of an Unknown Actor (1977) Father Sergius (1978) Little Tragedies (1979) Air Crew (1980) Farewell (1983) The Story of Voyages (1983) Dead Souls (1984) A Step (1988) Presence (1992) The Master and Margarita (1994)
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