film and television

As far as I know there are some ten films made of The Master and Marga-rita. The most famous one is without any doubt the TV-series in ten episo-des made by Vladimir Bortko in 2005 for Telekanal Rossia.

Giovanni Brancale (2008)
Vladimir Bortko (2005)
Ibolya Fekete (2005)
Sergei Desnitsky (1996)
Yuri Kara (1994)
Paul Bryers (1992)
Maciej Wojtyszko (1990)
Andras Szirtes(1990)
Aleksandar Petrovic (1972)
Andrzej Wajda (1972)

In this part of the website you can see fragments from the adaptations of Vladimir Bortko, Ibolya Fekete, Aleksandar Petrovic, Maciej Wojtyszko and Yuri Kara. I don't have images of the other three. If you have them, or if you know how to get them, or if you know other movie pictures than the ones mentioned here, I kindly invite you to contact the webmaster.

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The selected fragments on this page are ordered following the chronology of the scenes in the novel and they are completed with images of the sources which Bugakov consulted and to which he refers, like the opera's Aïda of Giuseppe Verdi and Faust of Charles Gounod, and the vaudeville Lev Gurytsj Sinitsjkin of Dmitri Timofeyevich Lensky. You can also see the short animation movie Margarita, directed by Svetlana Petrova and Natalya Berezovaya.

You can use the menu on the right of this page to judge how the different directors presented some key scenes from The Master and Margarita.