News of the Day
June 29, 2014
Today we added to the Context section of our website a page with a video giving a nice overview of the favorite themes shown in the broadcasts of Новости дня (Novosti dnya) or News of the Day in the cinema theatres of the Soviet Union.
In the heat of the bolshevik revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin was asked which propaganda tools would be the most important to the new Soviet regime. He answered that, according to him, the potential of movies just started to manifest itself and that this medium would probably become more important than any other.
Since then, the achievements of the regime were regularly extolled in the Soviet cinemas, supported by images of happy people who were proud to contribute to the realisation of the socialist utopian society.
Click here to read more about it and to watch the video
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- 201031 A new book about the novel
- 200824 Illustrations Alexander Semushin
- 200822 Illustrations panalevich
- 200724 Animation Galina Sokolova
- 200714 ABC Radio National
- 200608 Ksenia Voloshkina
- 200604 Gabi Bania
- 200510 Would-be Margaritas
- 200223 Katy Kononova and MC TJ
- 200222 Illustrations Vyacheslav Zhelvakov
- 200220 Music by Trails Don't Lie
- 200210 The screen adaptations
- 200202 Illustrations Jan Vanhellemont
- 200124 Our book in Dutch
- 200122 Illustrations by Julia Galkina
- 200116 Illustrations by Andrey Nikolaev
- 200101 Book about the novel
Films and TV-series
Along with much information on the novel, you will also find on this website different film adaptations of The Master and Margarita, subtitled in English by your webmaster.