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‘The Master and Margarita,’ Long-Awaited Adaptation of Mikhail Bugakov’s Iconic Russian Novel, Headed for AFM as Luminosity Pictures Reps Sales (EXCLUSIVE)


'The Master and Margarita,' an adaptation of Mikhail Bugakov's iconic semi-autobiographical novel, is headed to AFM with Luminosity Pictures.

“The Master and Margarita” stars August Diehl (“Inglourious Basterds”), Claes Bang (“Bad Sisters”), Evgeniy Tsyganov (The Man Who Surprised Everyone”) and Yulia Snigir (“A Good Day to Die Hard”). The film, set in the Stalinist Soviet Union of the 1940s/50s, tells the story of “The Master” (Tsyganov) whose analogy-laden play about Pontius Pilate (Bang) is canceled by the authoritarian government. American-born Lockshin, who grew up between the U.S. and the USSR, shot his Russian-language version in 2021, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and it was released domestically earlier this year, where it grossed more than $28 million despite being denounced by Putin’s government and propagandists, some of whom called for the director to face criminal charges.

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