The Master and Margarita

In Moscow in the 1930s, a playwright is expelled from the Writers' Union and finds himself on the margins of society. Under the influence of his muse Margarita, he begins writing a new novel—a satirical story in which all his persecutors are reflected as grotesque characters. A mysterious stranger named Woland arrives in Moscow, the embodiment of a dark force that turns the city upside down and punishes those responsible for the author's downfall. The adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's most famous work has become a symbol of cultural resistance against censorship and authoritarianism – and that is precisely why it has been the target of attacks by the regime in today's Russia.