‘The Master and Margarita’ Adaptation Gets Long-Awaited U.S. Theatrical Release After Legal Battle (EXCLUSIVE)

By K.J. Yossman

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Michael Lockshin’s Russian-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” is finally getting a long-awaited U.S. theatrical release.

Following a lengthy battle, Luminosity Pictures are rolling the movie out Stateside from Sept. 18, Variety can confirm.

Based on Bulgakov’s seminal, semi-autobiographical work, “The Master and Margarita” follows the story of a writer in 1930s Moscow. After being censored, he writes a new novel in which the Devil appears to wreak havoc on those who have wronged the author. It stars August Diehl, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Yuliya Snigir and Claes Bang, among others.

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