The budget of the new film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”, directed by Mikhail Lokshin and starring Evgeny Tsyganov and Yulia Snigir, exceeded 1.2 billion rubles. This was announced by filmmaker Igor Tolstunov. TASS.
The film is scheduled to be released on January 25, 2024.
“It was a very difficult project, but we are almost finished. At first we had a concept, but then we revised it significantly. It took about seven years in total. Tolstunov stated that the current budget is 1 billion 239 million rubles.
The producer of the film also noted that “The Master and Margarita” will be an important film in the domestic film market.
“We don’t make accurate predictions because it always depends on the audience’s reaction,” he said in a conversation with reporters.
The announcement on the Kinopoisk portal describes the new painting as follows: “Moscow, 1930s. A famous writer at the peak of his career suddenly finds himself in the middle of a literary scandal. Performances of his play are excluded from the repertoire, colleagues openly avoid meeting him, and within a few days he turns into an outcast. He soon meets Margarita, who becomes his lover and muse. Inspired by her love and support, the author begins a new novel in which the characters are people from his circle, and the main character is the mysterious Woland, whose prototype was a recent foreign acquaintance. “The author immerses himself in the world of his novel and gradually ceases to notice how fiction and reality are intertwined into a single whole.”
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