Films in Our subtitle project
The TV-series of Vladimir Bortko
Here you can watch an example of the English subtitles made for Vladimir Bortko's TV-series The Master and Margarita (2005) by the webmaster of this site.
We decided to make subtitles by ourselves since we noticed that various suppliers offered a DVD-set of the TV-series with English subtitles on the internet, but the quality of those subtitles is very poor. Many people who bought it were really deceived. Which is a pity, since it was the most successful TV-series ever on the Russian television, but the official distributor didn't bother about subtitling it.
That's why, in 2009, we decided to make subtitles ourselves. And not only in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch. The complete series is now available on DVD with the choice of 6 subtitles. You can use the link on the right of this page to order the DVD in our Web shop.
The film of Yuri Kara
Yuri Kara's film The Master and Margarita (1994) was for a long time the most discussed but least watched Russian film ever. For 17 years, the film didn't get officially released. There existed bootleg versions of it though, but again without subtitles. In 2011, after 17 years of discussions à la russe, the film was finally released. But it was in a much shorter version and also without subtitles.
So we subtitled both versions of this film. The quality of the images of the long original version from 1994 is not as good as the shorter version from 2011. Yet it is an interesting historical document. The DVD's of both versions with English, French, German and Dutch subtitles are available in the Web shop of this site. You can use the link on the right of this page to order the DVD's.
A Dog's Heart
On demand of many visitors of this website, we also subtitled A Dog's Heart, another very good film made by Vladimir Bortko and based on a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This film is available with English, French and Dutch subtitles.
Other subtitles
There are two more film adaptations of The Master and Margarita with English subtitles in which we were not involved. Both are offered on the Amazon website, but we also included them in the Master & Margarita Collection, a special DVD box we released in 2011 to mark the 120th birthday of Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Maciej Wojtyszko (1990) The VHS-casette of the Polish TV-se-ries Mistrz i Malgorzata made by Ma-ciej Wojtyszko from 1990 is subti-tled in English and available on Ama-zon. Click on the image to order.
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Aleksandar Petrovic (1972) The DVD of the Italian/Hungarian film The Master and Margareth by Alek-sandar Petrovic is subtitled in Eng-lish and available on Amazon. Click on the image to order.
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The films
For the moment you can buy four subtitled films and a Master & Margarita Collection box in the Web shop of this site. Click on the title for more information.
The Master and Margarita (2005)
Vladimir Bortko
English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Dutch
The Master and Margarita (2011)
Yuri Kara
English, French, German and Dutch
A Dog's Heart (1998)
Vladimir Bortko
English, French and Dutch
The Master and Margarita (1994)
Yuri Kara
English, French, German and Dutch
Master & Margarita Collection (2011)
6 films in one box
Various subtitles
History
On November 16, 2007, the department of Slavonic Languages and East European Stu-dies of the Catholic University of Leuven, and the Department of Russian of the Lessius Ho-geschool in Antwerp, organised the 5th Day of the Flemish Slavonics, which was de-voted entirely to The Master and Margarita.
The webmaster of this site, who was invited to take care of the multimedia on this seminar, seized the opportunity to subtitle some frag-ments of Vladimir Bortko's TV-series and Yuri Kara'd movie picture from 1994 in Dutch. It was the start of our subtitling project. The subtitles we made for the seminar in 2007 seem very unprofessional when you look at them today, but for the sake of good old times nostalgy you can watch them following the links hereunder.