The Master and Margaret , is a 1972

1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

 Italian

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-Yugoslav

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-SFR Yugoslavia:The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had an internationally acclaimed film industry.Prominent male actors included Danilo Bata Stojković, Ljuba Tadić, Bekim Fehmiu, Fabijan Šovagović, Mustafa Nadarević, Bata Živojinović, Boris Dvornik, Ljubiša Samardžić, Dragan Nikolić and...

 film directed

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 by Aleksandar Petrović.

The film is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...

's 1967 novel The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around 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, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a...

, although it mainly focuses on the parts of the novel set in 1920s Moscow

Moscow

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.

It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, with Bata Živojinović

Bata Živojinovic

Velimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...

 picking up the Golden Arena for Best Actor

Golden Arena for Best Actor

The Golden Arena awards were established in 1955 as the Yugoslav national film awards, presented annually at the Pula Film Festival. From 1955 to 1990 the awards were given for highest achievements in Yugoslav cinema. In 1991 the festival was cancelled due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, only to...

 at the 1972 Pula Film Festival

Pula Film Festival

The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....

, and was Yugoslavia's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 45th Academy Awards

45th Academy Awards

The 45th Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson....

, but did not receive a nomination.

Cast

• Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
  
   - The Master (Nikolaj Afanasijevič Maksudov)
• Mimsy Farmer
  Mimsy Farmer
  Mimsy Farmer is an American actress. Her nickname came from a line in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; "All mimsy were the borogoves".-Career:...
  
   - Margarita
• Alain Cuny
  Alain Cuny
  Alain Cuny was a French actor.He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s...
  
   - Woland
  Woland
  Woland is a fictional character in the book The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Woland is the mysterious foreigner and professor whose visit to Moscow sets the plot rolling and turns the world upside-down. He appears differently to different people. "[t]he first says...
  
  
• Bata Živojinović
  Bata Živojinovic
  Velimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
  
   - Koroviev
• Pavle Vuisić - Azazello
• Fabijan Šovagović
  Fabijan Šovagovic
  Fabijan Šovagović was a Croatian actor.Fabijan Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia. He began acting in his youth and from late 1950s he appeared in many films, becoming one of the most recognisable faces of Croatian cinema...
  
   - Berlioz
• Ljuba Tadić
  Ljuba Tadic
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   - Pontius Pilate
  Pontius Pilate
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• Taško Načić
  Taško Nacic
  Taško Načić was a popular Serbian actor.He studied acting at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1956. In 1954 he became a member of National Theatre in Belgrade, where he acted in plays Stanoje Glavaš and Gospođa Ministarka. Soon after that he went to theater Boško...
  
   - Rimsky
• Danilo Stojković

More screen adaptations

Giovanni Brancale - Il Maestro e Margherita - 2008 (movie picture) Vladimir Bortko

Vladimir Bortko

Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko , born on May 7, 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.-Biography:...

 - Master i Margarita - 2005 (TV series) Ibolya Fekete - A Mester és Margarita - 2005 (movie picture) Sergei Desnitsky - Master i Margarita - 1996 (TV film) Yuri Kara

Yuri Kara

Yuri Viktorovich Kara , born on 12 November 1954 in Stalino, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.-Biography:Yuri Kara was born on 12 November 1954 in the Ukrainian city of Stalino, which is now called Donetsk....

 - Master i Margarita - 1994 (movie picture) Paul Bryers

Paul Bryers

Paul Bryers, born in Liverpool in 1953, is a British film director, screenwriter and fiction author.-Biography:Paul Bryers studied Modern history, politics and economy at the University of Southampton. Later he joined the Daily Mirror’s training scheme for journalists...

 - Incident in Judea - 1992 (TV-film) Andras Szirtes - Forradalom Után - 1990 (movie picture) Maciej Wojtyszko

Maciej Wojtyszko

- Biography :Maciej Wojtyszko graduated from the Liceum Technik Teatralnych in Warsaw in 1965. After having studied Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, he went to the National Film School in Łódź, where he graduated as a director in 1973....

 - Mistrz i Małgorzata

The Master and Margarita (TV series 1988)

The Master and Margarita is a Polish television production of Polish Film Producers Teams , based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.-Three layers:...

 - 1988 (TV series) Andrzej Wajda - Pilatus und Andere

Pilate and Others

Pilate and Others is a 1972 German drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1967 novel The Master and Margarita by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, although it focuses on the parts of the novel set in biblical Jerusalem, however events which have occurred in it, are transferred to the...

 - 1972 (TV film)

To be expected:
Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

- The Master and Margarita - 2012 (movie picture) Rinat Timerkaev - Master i Margarita - 2012 (animated movie picture)

External links

The Master and Margaret (Aleksandar Petrovic) on the Master & Margarita website