The Master and Margarita (English subtitles). Part 1 of 10 (episode 1 of 5). Russia’s first television production of The Master and Margarita, the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Vladimir Bortko is the director and screenwriter of the new adaptation. The mini-series of ten 52-minute episodes was first screened on the state television channel “Rossiya” on December, 2005. General Producers: Anton Zlatopolsky, Valery Todorovsky. Director: Vladimir Bortko. Composer: Igor Kornelyuk. VFX: Lesta Studio. Production: * Goskino. * Kanal Rossiya. * Behemoth Studio St. Petersburg. * Trigraph – special effects. Main cast: Anna Kovalchuk as Margarita. Alexsandr Galibin as Master. Oleg Basilashvili as Woland. Vladislav Galkin as Bezdomny (Homeless). Kirill Lavrov as Pontius Pilate. Aleksandr Abdulov as Koroviev. Aleksandr Filippenko as Azazello. Sergey Bezrukov as Yeshua Ha-Nozri. Aleksandr Bashirov as Behemoth. ===================== The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order. ————————————– Main Characters in The Master and Margarita. ————————————– Contemporary Russians: The Master. An author who has written a novel about …