sentences:  After a few years of his artistic hiatus, Oleg Basilashvili made a comeback with an impressive performance as Woland in the TV miniseries "The Master and Margarita" (2005), an adaptation of the eponymous novel of Mikhail Bulgakov by director Vladimir Bortko.In his own words, Basilashvili played the character of Woland in resemblance of an authoritarian and manipulative bureaucrat, alluding to a Soviet-era dictator.Basilashvili created a
  powerful interplay with a stellar ensemble of actors, such as Aleksandr Abdulov, Kirill Lavrov, Anna Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Galibin, Aleksandr Filippenko, and other notable Russian actors.