“Should we ban something?”: Vladimir Bortko on the new film adaptation of “The Master and Margarita”

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Conversation with Vladimir Bortko, director and writer of the series “The Master and Margarita” HABER.ru He assured that he would not watch the film adaptation of Mikhail Lokshin.

“I won’t watch it. How do I feel about the new reinterpretation of the work? So should we ban it or what? People want to make movies and shoot movies. They probably want to eat,” Bortko said.

Earthly premiere of “The Master and Margarita” directed by Mikhail Lokshin passed In the Moscow cinema “October” on January 24. The main roles in the film were played by Evgeny Tsyganov (The Master) and Yulia Snigir (Margarita). According to the artist, the film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s popular novel is not the same as the canonical plot.

According to the plot of the film, a famous writer finds himself in the middle of a literary scandal: a performance based on his play is canceled and his colleagues return. Then the writer meets a new muse and, losing touch with reality, begins to write a novel about the mysterious Woland. The action takes place in Moscow in the 1930s.

Performer of the role of Doctor Stravinsky in the new film adaptation, actor Leonid Yarmolnik suggestedMikhail Lokshin’s film will make viewers want to read Bulgakov’s novel. Yarmolnik believes that the film will not be able to accommodate all the stories in the original book in any case.

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