Video fragments from the novel
Films and TV-series
It's amazing how many movie adaptations there exist of The Master and Margarita. I know about fifteen films, and some more are being prepared.
Released
Charlotte Waligòra (2017) - French
Giovanni Brancale (2008) - Italian
Vladimir Bortko (2005) - Russian (*)
Ibolya Fekete (2005) - Hungarian
Sergei Desnitsky (1996) - Russian
Yuri Kara (1994) - Russian (*)
Paul Bryers (1992) - English
Oldřich Daněk (1991) - Czech
Maciej Wojtyszko (1990) - Polish (*)
Andras Szirtes(1990) - Hungarian
Aleksandr Dzekun (1989) - Russian
Vladimir Vasilyev and Boris Yermolaev (1986) - Russian
Aleksandar Petrovic (1972) - Italian
Andrzej Wajda (1972) - Polish
Seppo Wallin (1970) - Finnish
Coming soon
Michael Lockshin (2023) - Russian
Katariina Lillqvist (2017) - Finnish/Czech
Doubtful
While googling the net for finding films based on The Master and Margarita, you may also find the movie The Master and Margarita - The Ball at Satan's, produced by a certain Sergey Pryanishnikov in 2002. It's a full length film (119 minutes), using elements of Bulgakov's novel to link quite vulgar porn scenes to each other. For reasons of decency, we're not presenting this movie on our website.
Fragments
The selected fragments on this page are ordered following the chronology of the scenes in the novel and they are completed with images of the sources which Bugakov consulted and to which he refers, like the opera's Aïda of Giuseppe Verdi and Faust of Charles Gounod, and the vaudeville Lev Gurytsj Sinitsjkin of Dmitri Timofeyevich Lensky. You can also see some short animation movies like, for instance, Margarita, directed by Svetlana Petrova and Natalya Berezovaya.
You can use the menu on the right of this page to judge how the different directors presented some key scenes from The Master and Margarita.
(*) The films and series marked with an asterix have been subtitled by your webmaster in English, French and Dutch. Some of them also in German, Italian and Spanish. Click on the link below for more information.
