2024 № 4 (51)

UDC 72; 791

LBC 85.374.3

DOI: 10.51678/2226-0072-2024-4-578-601

For cit.: Dedkov O.M. Between the Reconstruction of Utopia and the Renovation of Dystopia: Details to the Architectural Portrait of Moscow in the Film The Master and Margarita (2024). Hudozhestvennaya kul’tura [Art & Culture Studies], 2024, no. 4, pp. 578–601. https://doi.org/10.51678/2226–0072–2024–4–578–601. (In Russian)

Dedkov Oleg M.

PhD Student, State Institute for Art Studies, 5 Kozitsky Lane, Moscow, 125375, Russia

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4149-8075

ResearcherID: LFM-7290-2024

omd@mpolis.net

Between the Reconstruction of Utopia and the Renovation of Dystopia: Details to the Architectural Portrait of Moscow in the Film The Master and Margarita (2024)

Abstract. The article is devoted to the visual image of Moscow in the film The Master and Margarita (2024), directed by M. Lokshin and based on M. Bulgakov’s novel of the same name. The analysis focuses on the architectural images of the real and project-level buildings depicted in the film, their relationship to the socio-cultural context of the novel, the real Moscow of the 1930s, and the imaginary pre-war Stalin’s Moscow. The text contains references to films that actively used the image of the pre-war Moscow architectural utopia and various literary and architectural allusions related to the director’s view of the plots and images of the source novel. 

Keywords: M. Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, film, M. Lokshin, architecture, Moscow of the 1930s, postconstructivism, Art Deco, ideology, utopia

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Received 11.08.2024

Accepted 17.10.2024