Master and Margarita (1994)

Master i Margarita (original title)

Director: Yuri Kara

Cast 
Anastasiya Vertinskaya  ...  Margarita 
Viktor Rakov  ...  The Master 
Mikhail Ulyanov  ...  Pontius Pilate 
Nikolay Burlyaev  ...  Yeshua Ha Nozri 
Valentin Gaft  ...  Woland 
Sergey Garmash  ...  Ivan Bezdomny 
Viktor Pavlov  ...  Behemoth 
Aleksandr Filippenko  ...  Koroviev-Fagotto 
Vladimir Steklov  ...  Azazello 
Vyacheslav Shalevich  ...  Joseph Kaifa 
Spartak Mishulin  ...  Archibald Archibaldovich 
Lev Durov  ...  Matthew Levi 
Sergey Nikonenko  ...  Styopa Likhodeev 
Igor Vernik  ...  Joseph Kaifa 
Aleksandra Zakharova  ...  Hella 

Genre:  Drama | Mystery

Runtime: 118 min`s

Sound: Russian

Subtitles:  None

Region - 5 (Russia) PAL

Master and Margarita (1994) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the 1930s Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, and has several story-lines that are intertwined. Master (Rakov) is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus (Burlyayev) and Pontius Pilate (Ulyanov). Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita (Vertinskaya) uses the supernatural powers of Woland (Gaft), trying to help Master. The character of Master is thought to be autobiographical, burning of his manuscript alludes to what Bulgakov himself did under threats from Soviet authorities.