In Moscow in the 1930s, a playwright is expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers and finds himself on the margins of society. Under the influence of his muse Margarita, he begins writing a new novel—a satirical story in which all his persecutors are reflected as grotesque characters.
A mysterious foreigner, Woland, the embodiment of a dark force, arrives in Moscow and turns the city upside down, punishing those responsible for the author’s downfall.
The adaptation of the most famous work by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, has become a symbol of cultural resistance against censorship and authoritarianism—and for that very reason it has become a target of attacks by the regime in today’s Russia.
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