- This film is an adaptation of "The master and Margarita" novel by M. Bulgakov. This adaptation is an attempt to have every word of the novel illustrated, to show every mentioned place or document in authentic way, to make collage of iconography, primitive drawings, and photography, to integrate alive and gone personalities together.—Terentij Oslyabya
- ...The speech, as it was later determined, involved Jesus Christ. Apparently, the editor had commissioned the poet to write a long anti-religious poem for the next issue of the journal. Ivan Nikolayevich managed to compose the poem in record time, but, unfortunately, it completely failed to please the editor. Though Homeless had painted the protagonist that is to say, Jesus in the darkest of colors, the editor was of the opinion that the entire thing had to be rewritten. And therefore, the editor was giving the poet a sort of lecture about Jesus, aiming to underscore the poets principal mistake. It is difficult to say what exactly undermined Ivan Nikolayevichs piece the descriptive power of his talent, or his complete ignorance of the subject but his Jesus turned out to be a very lifelike, if unattractive, character. Berlioz, however, wanted to show the poet that the crux of the matter lay not in Jesus nature, good or bad, but in the fact that Jesus, as a person, had never existed in the first place; that all the stories about this character were simple inventions, ordinary myths...
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