![]() ![]() And Aphranius, played by Lithuanian actor Liubomiras Laucevičius, got the voice of Oleg Basilashvili, the actor who played Woland.Ī main theme of The Master and Margarita, death under mysterious circumstances, remains topical. To mention only the most important ones: the role of Aloisy Mogarych was played by actor Gennady Bogachov, but we hear the voice of actor Andrey Tolubeev. But there were more voices dubbed by other actors. His lines were dubbed using the voice of Sergey Bezrukov, the actor who played the role of Yeshua. Galibin's voice is not heard in the film. ![]() With the existing technologies it could have been done better, but after all I can only conclude that, even though it is «only» TV, this series doesn't disenchant and its main merit is probably the fact that Bulgakov now found a much bigger audience than he ever could have had with his books.ĭirector Vladimir Bortko did not like the voice of actor Aleksandr Galibin, who played the role of the master. The depiction of Behemoth was a little disappointing too. I missed some characters who lent colour to the novel, like doctor Kuzmin and the demonic Abaddon. The actors are cast accurately and they play the characters faithfully to the novel's intentions so that even the most convinced sceptics shut their mouths, despite the huge popular success - on Decemmore than 80 million people were watching. The three layers of the novel are reflected more than adequately, with a well manipulated alternation of colour and black-and-white. Woland's meeting with Ivan and Berlioz, and the first confrontation of Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri are not only beautifully portrayed and well performed, but in addition they matched remarkably well with the images that I had in mind when I first read the book. But curiosity was stronger than scepticism and, frankly speaking, I was pleasantly surprised from the first images. I was kind of sceptical too when I saw the dvd at дом книги (Dom Knigi) or House of Books in Moscow. He followed the dialogues almost word for word because, so he said, Bulgakov wrote the novel almost like a screenplay. Besides, he already filmed another novel of Bulgakov before: Heart of a Dog, in 1988. Bortko had already shown his talent with his TV-adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot in 2003. The setting of a TV-series appeared to be an ideal format to elaborate the complicated, multidimensional work with many different characters. If you have 10 times 52 minutes available for it, it is of course, easier than when you're supposed to deliver a 90 minutes movie picture. Other than some well-known earlier screen adaptations, director Vladimir Bortko (☁946) followed the book meticulously. Or maybe it was because of the gigantic publicity campaign that was launched to promote the series, and that could give reasons to fear an ambitious, but superficial Hollywood-ish production. Sometimes it was sincere and well-grounded concern about the authenticity, but sometimes it seemed as if the Bulgakov die-hards behaved like modern Latunsky's by reproaching a movie they hadn't seen yet with sacrilege. This TV-epopee of more than 8 hours was heavily criticized, or at least regarded with much scepticism, before it was shown on screen. In 2000 he had already been sollicited by the Kino-Most film studio, associated with the competing channel NTV, but at the last moment the company did not succeed to come to an agreement with Sergei Shilovsky, grandson of Bulgakov's third wife, and owner of the copyrights. It was the second attempt of director Vladimir Bortko to film Bulgakov's masterpiece. This TV-series directed by Vladimir Bortko and broadcast at the end of 2005 on the Russian Telekanal Rossiya, scored unprecedented ratings. ![]()
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