The Master and Margarita (2023)
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Description
Moscow, 1930s. A famous writer on the rise of his career suddenly finds himself in the center of a literary scandal. The play based on his play is removed from the repertoire, colleagues defiantly avoid meeting, in a matter of days he turns into an outcast. Soon after, he meets Margarita, who becomes his lover and muse. Inspired by her love and support, the writer undertakes a new novel in which the characters are people from his environment, and the main character is the mysterious Woland, the prototype of which is a recent acquaintance of a foreigner. The writer plunges headlong into the world of his novel and gradually ceases to notice how fiction and reality are intertwined into one whole.
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Interesting Facts
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- Initially, the name of the project was supposed to repeat the name of the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov, subsequently the producers decided to name the picture "Woland", which they later abandoned and returned to the original idea. Nikolai Lebedev, who started working on the film, focused on other projects, and Mikhail Lokshin took the director's chair.
- In 2018, the film was included in the list of film projects to which the Cinema Foundation allocates state support. Then it was reported that the budget of the film is 800 million rubles. Filming began in July 2021 and lasted until October 2021 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Malta.
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