Russian moviegoers flock to a Stalin-era satire

Russian American director Michael Lockshin began his film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel “Master and Margarita” before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now that it’s finally been released, Russians are crowding theaters to watch the cinematic send-up of state tyranny and it’s hitting even closer to home, as Lockshin explains to The World’s Marco Werman. 

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