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Fully packed cinemas, which is rather rare in Russia, and a phenomenal box office success:
The Master and Margarita
, directed by Mikhail Lokshin, released in theaters on January 25, is the film that everyone is talking about - as much for its undeniable artistic qualities as well as for its fiercely contemporary attack against the biases of power.
Adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) and his eponymous work, one of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century, the film has already been seen by more than two million spectators - who applaud at the end of the screening - and has generated 1 billion rubles in revenue (more than 10 million euros), almost the production budget.
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Written between 1928 and 1940, banned for decades, Bulgakov's book, which only appeared in the USSR in 1973 in its uncensored version, is a fantastic and philosophical tale, a satirical fable with Faustian overtones, which compares, like a kaleidoscope, Stalinist Moscow…
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