Yuri Kara - The Master and Margarita (1994)
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Yuri Kara - The Master and Margarita - Full version (1994)
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Background - In 1994, director Yuri Kara completed his screen adaptation of The Master and Margarita. It turned out to be a 3 hours and 22 minutes film. For various reasons, the result remained hidden from the general public for many years, although a bootleg DVD circulated among Bulgakov enthusiasts. It wasn't until 2011 that the film was officially released on DVD, but in a greatly abridged version of 1 hour and 58 minutes.
The 1994 bootleg version of 3 hours and 22 minutes had poor image quality because it was recorded from an old VHS cassette. The 2011 official version of 1 hour and 58 minutes had much better image quality, but missed 1 hour and 24 minutes of the original editing by Yuri Kara. Whoever wanted to watch Yuri Kara's film was therefore faced with a dilemma: to strain one's eyes to see the director's complete work, or to spare one's eyes and watch a abridged version.
A partial solution to this problem was recently offered by the Russian film enthusiast Vadim Anokhin. Anokhin has skillfully intertwined the two versions of Yuri Kara's film into one version. The result is a film of 3 hours and 22 minutes, with 1 hour and 58 minutes in very good image quality, and 1 hour and 24 minutes in a slightly lesser quality, but with smooth transitions from one version to another. It is also striking how the disturbing background noise from the old version has been skilfully removed.
For all these reasons, we will offer this version in our webshop as the «director's cut» of Yuri Kara in the future, and we have also made sure that it is available with subtitles in 6 languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish.
When you follow the link below, you will find the 2011 cinema version.
Technical details
Media
DVD
Director
Yuri Kara
Actors
Anastasiya Vertinskaya (Margarita), Viktor Rakov (The Master), Valentin Gaft (Wo-land), Sergey Garmash (Ivan Bezdomny), Mikhail Ulyanov (Pontius Pilate), Aleksandr Filippenko (Koroviev), Viktor Pavlov (Behemoth), Nikolay Burlyayev (Yeshua Ha-Nozri), Vyatsheslav Shalevich (Kaifa), Vladimir Steklov (Azazello)
Music
Alfred Schnittke
Languages
Russian
Subtitles
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
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