![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this way Bulgakov takes a sledgehammer to the tradition of “Soviet realism” while offering a none-too-subtle critique of Stalinist Russia, with its staunch atheism and stifling bureaucracy. A series of outrageous comedic set pieces see various bureaucratic functionaries laid low by the Professor and his comrades. the Professor, arrives in Moscow one day with a retinue that includes a talking cat named Behemoth and a vampire seductress. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA is the wildly fantastic, satirical account of what transpires when the Devil, a.k.a. This televised adaptation is notable for its unerringly faithful rendering of that book, although it misses much of what makes Bulgakov’s text the immortal classic it is. Having read Bulgakov’s masterpiece twice, I find it a remarkable piece of work that fully retains all the shocking and insightful satire of its 1930s-era inception. The novel is widely considered one of the supreme masterpieces of 20 th Century literature, and I’m not about to dispute that assessment. This Russian miniseries is the most accurate and monumental adaptation yet attempted of Mikhail Bulgakov’s MASTER AND MARGARITA. ![]()
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