Based upon Mikhail Bulgakov’s extraordinary novel, Michael Lockshin’s film The Master and Margarita caused a furor with its Russian release in 2024. The riveting fantasy-drama is set in the 1930s during the crescendo of Stalin’s Great Terror when a mysterious Professor of Black Magic (aka Satan) wreaks havoc in Moscow, but Russian audiences immediately perceived the parallels with Vladimir Putin’s repression of the political and cultural opposition in the present. While the film became a box-office hit and the 7th highest grossing film in Russia of all time, the director has faced tremendous backlash from regime propagandists, attacks in the Russian parliament, and death threats. A screening of the film in Loew Auditorium at 6pm will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Michael Lockshin.

In Russian, German, Latin, and Aramaic with English subtitles.

Free and open to all Dartmouth Faculty, Staff and Students.