The Master and Margarita (TV Miniseries) - Trivia

Trivia

• Vladimir Bortko did not like the voice of actor Aleksandr Galibin, who played the role of Master. His voice is not heard in the film. Instead his lines were dubbed by Sergey Bezrukov, the actor who played the role of Yeshua.

• Some of the actors who appear in this TV series also appeared in the film The Master and Margarita made by Yuri Kara. Aleksandr Filippenko (Azazello) is Koroviev in Kara's film, while Valentin Gaft, who plays both the roles of Kaifa and the chief officer of the secret police, is Woland in Kara's film.

• The themes of The Master and Margarita remain very topical in Russia. Several deaths that have occurred, since the filming of the miniseries, among actors who played roles in it feed the idea for many Russians that a curse rests upon those who participate in a film adaptation of The Master and Margarita, and this idea is fiercely debated even today. Valentin Gaft, who plays both the roles of Kaifa and the chief of the secret police, lost his 29-year-old daughter, who hanged herself shortly after filming. Valery Zolotukhin, who played Bosoy, lost his 27-year-old son in the same way. Kirill Lavrov, who played the role of Pontius Pilate, got cancer and died on April 27, 2007. Aleksandr Abdulov, the actor who played Korovyev, died of lung cancer on January 3, 2008. He was 54 years old. Vladislav Galkin, who played the poet Ivan Bezdomny, was found dead in suspicious circumstances in a rented apartment in Moscow on February 27, 2010. He was 39 years old.