And that may well have to do with the director's attitude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the fate of Michael Lockshin's highly anticipated film Woland has become very uncertain. 10 in Moscow, opened a Bulgakov Scientific and Educational Centre in the Bolshoy Afanasevsky Lane.ġ2.01.23 - The fate of the film Woland becomes uncertainįor a long time it looked as if a film director would finally succeed in bringing a film adaptation of The Master and Margarita to a successful end. Bulgakov, one of the two Bulgakov museums in Bolshaya Sadovaya Street no. Today, the Moscow Mayor's website announced that the restoration of the master's basement in Mansurovsky Lane no. Today I accidentally came across an - expired - advertisement from the second-hand bookshop de Slegte offering a copy of The Master and Margarita «translated from the Russian by Marc Hendrickx». Woland will now just become The Master and Margarita. And immediately they announced that the title was changed. Yesterday, the production house Mars Media launched a new trailer for director Michael Lockshin's film Woland. The fastest way to read our latest news is to visit our Facebook pageĠ1.05.23 - «Woland» changed to «The Master and Margarita» Welcome to the wonderful world of The Master and Margarita. Have a regular look at the newspage too, because Bulgakov is still alive… You can use the menu at the top to learn more about Mikhail Bulgakov, the story and its themes, the political and social context, the characters and the locations, and discover how this novel inspired many others to create music, movie pictures or theatre plays. I lost my heart in Moscow, it will stay there forever and I started learning Russian because, one day, I want to be able to read it in the original language. One year later the images came back, and how! Another Russian friend of mine, Irina Ternovaya, advised me to read The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov. I was listening and I was amused, but without really trying to remember the name of the novel nor its author. She told me a strange, but funny story about the Devil visiting Moscow. We were discussing literature and I told her about my favourite novel, Cien años de soledad, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was talking to Tatiana Poppel, a Russian friend who lived there. But the Devil’s mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master – a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum – and his past lover, Margarita.īoth a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century.Ĭontains an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes.It was a hot summer night in July 2003 and I was admiring the Eiffel Tower from the open window of a nice penthouse at the Avenue Émile Zola in Paris. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. Ten-Year Anniversary Edition – newly revised and updated
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