Screen adaptations
The agony of the filmmakers
Many film directors have encountered difficulties in adapting The Master and Margarita - they failed more often than they succeeded. You will find their stories following the link below.
Successful projects
It's amazing, however, how many movie adaptations there exist of The Master and Margarita. I know about sixteen films, and two others are being prepared.
Released
Michael Lockshin (2022) - Russian
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
Without further news
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.
On this website
With the menu on the top right of this page you can see the technical details of the movies, read articles on them, and watch excerpts.
Subtitle project
(*) 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. Follow the link for more information.
Master i Margarita (2005) with English subtitles
