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Master and Margarita

The film’s plot is set in Moscow in the 1930s. A famous writer at the peak of his career suddenly finds himself at the center of a literary scandal. The play based on his work is taken off the repertoire, his colleagues pointedly avoid meeting with him, and in a matter of days he becomes an outcast. Shortly after that, he meets Margarita, who becomes his beloved and muse. Inspired by her love and support, the writer begins work on a new novel, in which the characters are people from his social circle, and the main character is the enigmatic Woland, whose prototype was a recent foreign acquaintance of his. The writer immerses himself in the world of his novel and gradually stops noticing how fiction and reality merge into one.