The Master and Margaret (1972 film)

The Master and Margaret
The Master and Margaret
	The Master and Margaret (1972)
Directed by	Aleksandar Petrović
Written by	Barbara Alberti; Amedeo Pagani; Aleksandar Petrović; Roman Wingarten; Mikhail Bulgakov (Novel)
Produced by	Arrigo Colombo
Starring	Alain Cuny; Ugo Tognazzi; Mimsy Farmer;
Cinematography	Roberto Gerardi
Edited by	Mihailo Ilić
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Release date	1972;
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	Italy; Yugoslavia;
Languages	Serbo-Croatian; Italian

The Master and Margaret (Serbo-Croatian: Мајстор и Маргарита, Majstor i Margarita, Italian: Il maestro e Margherita) is a 1972 Italian-Yugoslav fantasy drama film directed and co-written by Aleksandar Petrović, loosely based on Mikhail Bulgakov's 1940 novel of the same name, although it mainly focuses on the parts of the novel set in 1920s Moscow.^[1]

Written byBarbara Alberti
Amedeo Pagani
Aleksandar Petrović
Roman Wingarten
Mikhail Bulgakov (Novel)

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It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, with Bata Živojinović picking up the Golden Arena for Best Actor at the 1972 Pula Film Festival.^[2] The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[3]

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