Woland from Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, the guide at the Bulgakov Museum, little Mikhail on his own, and his nanny, united in a single narrative in this experimental documentary inspired by the biography of the writer.
To approach this mysterious oeuvre the film combines the uncombinable. Re-enactments at Bulgakov’s house in the Podil neighbourhood are met with excerpts from films by Griffith, Lubitsch and Duvivier. The heady mix of storytelling techniques makes this film a hypnotising dream, confounding like the work of the writer himself.
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Director
Serhii Masloboishchykov
Producer
Larissa Rodnianska
Writer
Serhii Masloboishchykov
Cinematography
Eduard Timlin
Editor
Oleg Timoshenko
Editor
Michael Komarovsky
Status
Released
Countries
Ukraine
Companies
Contact Studio of the National Filmmakers' Union of Ukraine