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The Master and Margarita

★ 7.5 6K votes 2005–2005 1 season · 10 episodes Ended Russia-1
SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 9/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 8/10SatiricalComedy sharpened into social and political critique.This show: 8/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 7/10Urban fantasyMagic hidden inside the modern world.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Aleksandr AbdulovOleg BasilashviliVano MiranyanSemyon FurmanAleksandr ChabanVladislav Galkin
Starring
Aleksandr AbdulovOleg BasilashviliVano MiranyanSemyon FurmanAleksandr ChabanVladislav Galkin
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"A satanic satire wrapped around a forbidden love"

In 1930s Moscow, a mysterious foreign professor - actually the Devil - arrives and unleashes surreal, satirical chaos on the city's writers and bureaucrats, while a condemned author's suppressed manuscript about Pontius Pilate and a woman who sells her soul for love weave through parallel timelines. The tone is theatrical, darkly comic, and philosophical, mixing horror, romance, and biting satire of Soviet life. It moves deliberately, more interested in atmosphere, ideas, and performance than spectacle, and rewards patience with a strange, haunting sense of moral and cosmic reckoning.

Watch it for

the faithful, atmospheric staging of Bulgakov's satirical classic and its committed performances.

Maybe skip if

you want brisk pacing or modern effects rather than dense, literary, theatrical storytelling.

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All Seasons

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Season 12005
7.61K108h 17m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pervaya seriya7.9
14644 min
▶2Vtoraya seriya7.6
11847 min
▶3Tretya seriya7.6
11052 min
▶4Chetvyortaya seriya7.5
11450 min
▶5Pyataya seriya7.4
10850 min
▶6Shestaya seriya7.7
10550 min
▶7Sedmaya seriya7.7
10550 min
▶8Vosmaya seriya7.6
9953 min
▶9Devyataya seriya7.7
9652 min
▶10Desyataya seriya7.6
10149 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Aleksandr Abdulov Koroviev
Oleg Basilashvili Woland
Vano Miranyan Behemoth the Cat
Semyon Furman Behemoth the Cat, Fat Man
Aleksandr Chaban Investigator
Vladislav Galkin Ivan Bezdomny
Aleksandr Filippenko Azazello
Valentin Gaft Man in Uniform, Caiaphas
Leonid Maksimov Investigator's Assistant
Dmitriy Poddubnyy

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