Pilate and Others

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Pilate and Others
Movie poster
Directed byAndrzej Wajda
Written byAndrzej Wajda
Mikhail Bulgakov (book)
Based onThe novel
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Produced byGünther Lüdecke
Andrzej Wajda
StarringWojciech Pszoniak
Jan Kreczmar
Daniel Olbrychski
CinematographyIgor Luther
Pfeffer Sam
Edited byJoanna Rojewska
Music byJohann Sebastian Bach (St Matthew Passion)
Production
company
Release date
  • 29 March 1972 (1972-03-29)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Pilate and Others (

drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1967 novel The Master and Margarita by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, although it focuses on the parts of the novel set in biblical Jerusalem
.

The film has the subtitle Ein Film für Karfreitag (English: The Film for

Berlin Film Festival on February 15, 2006, when director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Golden Bear
.

Background

Andrzej Wajda had already received two scripts from Warsaw to make a movie about the Passion but he had rejected both of them. When he had read The Master and Margarita, he decided to use Mikhail Bulgakov dialogues for his film.[2]

The shootings were done in

Nazi Party in Nuremberg. [3]

Story

In the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, on which the film is based, three story lines are interwoven: a satirical story line in which Satan, called Woland here, goes to the city of Moscow in the 30s to deal in hilarious manner with the corrupt lucky ones, bureaucrats and profiteers from the Stalin era, a second one describing the internal struggle fought by Pontius Pilate before, during and after the conviction and execution of Yeshua Ha Nozri (Jesus from Nazareth), and a third one telling the story of the love between the master, an unnamed writer in Moscow during the 30s and his beloved Margarita, which goes to the extreme to save her master. The master has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is addressed by the authorities because this was an issue which in the officially atheistic Soviet Union was taboo.[4]

The film Pilate and Others only tells the biblical story of the novel: the story of Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha Nozri (Jesus from Nazareth),

Differences from the novel

The biblical story of the novel is situated in

reporter who makes reports from Golgotha; Yeshua Ha-Nozri passes Way of the Cross on streets of Frankfurt am Main.[5]

Cast

Soundtrack

Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion

Other screen adaptations of The Master and Margarita

  • Giovanni Brancale - Il Maestro e Margherita - 2008 (film)
  • Master i Margarita
    - 2005 (TV series)
  • Ibolya Fekete - A Mester és Margarita - 2005 (film)
  • Sergey Desnitsky - Master i Margarita - 1996 (film)
  • Master i Margarita
    - 1994 (film)
  • Incident in Judea
    - 1991 (tv-film)
  • Oldřich Daněk - Pilát Pontský, onoho dne - 1991 (film)
  • Andras Szirtes - Forradalom Után - 1990 (film)
  • Aleksandr Dzekun - Master i Margarita - 1989 (tv-reeks)
  • Mistrz i Małgorzata
    - 1988 (TV series)
  • Vladimir Vasilyev and Boris Yermolaev - Fuete - 1986 (film)
  • Il Maestro e Margherita
    - 1972 (speelfilm)
To be expected
  • Scott Steindorff - The Master and Margarita - 2012 (film)
  • Rinat Timerkaev - Master i Margarita - 2012 (animation film)

References

  1. ^ Andrzej Wajda. "Pilatus und andere". Andrzej Wajda website.
  2. ^ Ibid. "Pilatus und andere".
  3. ^ Jan Vanhellemont. "Pilatus und Andere - Andrzej Wajda". The Master and Margarita website.
  4. ISBN 0-14118-828-6
    .
  5. ^ Jan Vanhellemont. "Pilatus und Andere - Andrzej Wajda". The Master and Margarita website.

External links

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