“We pitched it as a movie about a writer who is censored… but censorship was not anywhere near where it is today. It’s hard to imagine that just three years ago, we were in a very different world.” The director of The Master and Margarita describes how the Kremlin-funded film came under attack for being anti-regime – and went on to become a box-office hit in Russia.
Source: The Master and Margarita: The Russian box-office hit that criticised the state