The Master and Margarita
(2024)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 165 votes
Year: 2024
Runtime: 157 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Михаил Локшин
Cast: Аугуст Диль, Юлия Снигирь, Евгений Цыганов, Клас Банг, Юрий Колокольников, Алексей Гуськов, Алексей Розин, Александр Яценко, Евгений Князев, Данил Стеклов
Plot
A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.
Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita". 1930's, Moscow. A famous writer is censored by the Soviet state: his novel is banned, and the theatrical premier of his new play about Pontius Pilate - canceled. In just a few days he becomes an outcast. Inspired by these misfortunes the writer conceives a new novel in which the devil, named Woland, satirically revenges all those responsible for the writer's downfall. He knows this novel can never be published in the USSR, but Margarita - his muse pushes him to write it no matter what.