Google are on the hunt for charismatic felines to star in their online adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel, “Master and Margarita.”

The special project, named "Master and Margarita: I Was There," marks 125 years since Bulgakov's birth, and will be ran in partnership with Mosfilm Studios. The event will involve c elebrity participants and normal Russians reading the novel aloud live from eight cities across the country , as well as Israel's Tel Aviv.

The twenty hours of narration will be split into two parts, and streamed live in 360 ° video format via YouTube on Nov. 11 and 12. Green screen technology will be used in the videos to transport viewers to Bulgakov's rich fictional world — but real life cats will also be needed on set.

Cat owners in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok can audition their pets by posting a picture of their cat on social media sites VKontakte or Instagram with the hashtag #котММ. Animal submissions are open until Oct. 25, while h uman participants can apply to take part as a narrator until Oct. 5.

Cats will not be asked to read aloud from the novel.

Published in 1966, “Master and Margarita” is a satire about Satan's visit to Stalin's Russian.



