SIRIUS, March 4 Serbian director Emir Kusturica said that if he were to film Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita,” he would focus on the line Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri.
«This is one of the best novels in the world. If I worked on it, the focus would be on Pontius Pilate,» the director said at a meeting with participants of the World Youth Festival as part of the «Knowledge. First» marathon of the Russian society «Knowledge» «.
Kusturica spoke about his upcoming project “Crime without Punishment”, in which he will combine two works by Fyodor Dostoevsky — “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”. The director shared his idea, according to which Prince Myshkin could kill Sofya Andreevna and speculate on the topic of murder for love. It could be a «socially relevant film,» he said.
The director also plans to work on Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “Laurel”. In addition, he is thinking about Gogol’s material: perhaps it will be a film based on “Dead Souls” or “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich.”
The World Youth Festival takes place from March 1 to 7 in the federal territory of Sirius by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The organizer of the festival is Rosmolodezh. – general information partner of the World Youth Festival 2024.