Il maestro e Margherita - Giovanni Brancale

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Giovanni Brancale, born on August 11, 1955, lives in Florence. He is a doc-tor, specialist in paediatrics. Ever since university he devoted himself, with some friends, in activities for children with puppet shows and video. After an experience as a doctor in Africa, in Benin, he returned to Italy where he works as a family practitioner. Next to this activity, he has started a career as movie director seven years ago, by making a cinematographic trilogy: three long-length films of almost one hour each which take place in Floren-ce. In the name of the Father is the first chapter, followed by Salvatore Rabbunì and The Formula. In 2008 Giovanni Brancale ended Il maestro e Margherita, inspired by the novel of Mikhail Bulgakov.

What about the story? Well... In the spring of the contemporary Florence the mysterious Woland bursts into the city, and with his suite he causes riot and makes relive the ancient history of the procurator Pilate and his friend Yeshua, written by the Master. "Farcical moments which mix with hilarious and dramatic moments, converge towards an unpredictable finale", the di-rector said himself.

Most Bulgakov-lovers will probably shudder when they see this movie. The story is not situated in Moscow: the discreet protagonist of the film is the city of Florence which is transformed in Jerusalem of the time of Pilate and which becomes the actual decor for the story of Woland, the Master and Margarita.

The director said that he "used the tradition of Renaissance in which the ci-ty is presented as the background of unforgettable annonciations of births and crucifixions".

According to him, the effect of neorealism is created by using amateur ac-tors. “A double act of love towards a well-beloved book, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, and a well-beloved city: Florence ", he said.

The film hasn't been very successful yet. After having been kept in the dra-wer of a distributor in London for several years, the film will be presented for the first time in the historic cinema Odeon in Florence on March 6, 2011.

Технические детали

Media
DVD

Director
Giovanni Brancale

Actors
Giovanni Bogani, Claudia Bonacchi, Antonio Paoletti, Mauro Seravalli

Release date
2008

Time
140 min.

Languages
Italian

Subtitles
Italian, English, French

Il Maestro e Margherita на DVD

The Master and Margarita CollectionThis film has never been released officially. But it has been subtitled in English and French by Giovanni Brancale himself. If you're interested in watching it, I'll be glad to make contact for you with the director.

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