Soon after Russian tanks crashed into Ukraine, Michael Lockshin realized he was making a dangerous movie. The director had spent 69 days, and $15 million, filming "The Master and Margarita" in Russia and Croatia, and now he was in Los Angeles beginning postproduction. With just one previous feature to his name, Lockshin had been entrusted with a cultural treasure — adapting a complicated modernist novel as beloved to Russians as "The Catcher in the Rye" is to Americans. He’d co-written the... Read this story
