Most of the criticism stopped after the first appearance on screen. Director Bortko followed the dialogues of the novel carefully, and the series became the most successful series ever on Russian television. Opponents feared that filming the work for television would sacrifice the layered narrative of the novel and the complexity of the socio-political and metaphysical themes to the popular demands of the broadcast medium. The first broadcast on December 19, 2005, was preceded by months of controversy in the media. This TV-epopee of more than eight hours was heavily criticized, or at least regarded with much skepticism. In 2005, Telekanal Rossiiya reached an agreement with Shilovsky. In 2000 he had already been solicited by the Kino-Most film studio, associated with competing channel NTV but at the last moment Kino-Most did not reach an agreement with Sergei Shilovsky, grandson of Mikhail Bulgakov's third wife Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, the self-declared owner of the copyrights. This was Bortko's second attempt to make a screen adaptation of Bulgakov's masterpiece. The series tagline is "Manuscripts do not burn!". Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter. The Master and Margarita ( Russian: Мастер и Маргарита, romanized: Master i Margarita) is a Russian television mini-series produced by Russian television channel Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 19.
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