| Incident in Judaea | |
|---|---|
| Based on | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Directed by | Paul Bryers |
| Starring |
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| Theme music composer | Debbie Wiseman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Budget | £230, 000 |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Release | 31 March 1991 |
Incident in Judaea is a British film made by Paul Bryers, based on the novel The Master and Margarita by the Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov. The film only adapts the biblical parts of the novel. It was broadcast by the British Channel 4 on 31 March 1991.
Author and director Paul Bryers wrote and directed many factually-based dramas for television, radio and theatre and adapted and directed films by outstanding playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Mikhail Bulgakov. His TV-film Incident in Judaea was the first real drama Paul Bryers ever directed and it's still one of the best experiences he's had as a director. [1] Bryers got a budget of £230,000, which was not much, but he could work with star actors like John Woodvine, Lee Montague and Mark Rylance. [2]
In the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, on which the film is based, three story lines are interwoven: a satirical story line in which Satan, called Woland here, goes to the city of Moscow in the 1930s to deal in hilarious manner with the corrupt lucky ones, bureaucrats and profiteers from the Stalin era, a second one describing the internal struggle fought by Pontius Pilate before, during and after the conviction and execution of Yeshua Ha Nozri (Jesus from Nazareth), and a third one telling the story of the love between the master, an unnamed writer in Moscow during the 1930s and his beloved Margarita, which goes to the extreme to save her master. The master has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is addressed by the authorities because this was an issue which in the officially atheistic Soviet Union was taboo. [3]
The film Incident in Judaea only tells the biblical story of the novel: the story of Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha Nozri (Jesus from Nazareth), but follows faithfully the story and the dialogues. The film starts with the first paragraph of Chapter 2 of the novel: "In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great' the procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate". [4]
Original music score by Debbie Wiseman
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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