Faust
The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind - and perhaps to blow it - long after it's over.
Faust
Based on the tragedy by Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Final Part of the Tetralogy
Moloch – Taurus - The Sun
Winner of the 2011 Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion, FAUST is acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov’s latest film, a hallucinatory re-imagining of Goethe’s masterpiece set in the early 19th century. Using elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust (Johannes Zeiler,) is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment, but becomes obsessed with the lovely Margarete (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself.
The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature – there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations.
FAUST is the final installment of Alexander Sokurov’s cinematic tetralogy on the nature of power. The main characters in the first three films are real historical figures: Adolph Hitler (Moloch, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Taurus, 2000), and Emperor Hirohito (The Sun, 2005). The symbolic image of Faust completes this series of great gamblers who lost the most important wagers of their lives.
DIRECTOR’S COMMENT
Faust is seemingly out of place in this portrait gallery, an almost museum-like literary character framed by a simple plot. What does he have in common with these real figures (from the three previous films about historical figures) who ascended to the pinnacle of power? A love of words that are easy to believe and a pathological unhappiness in everyday life. Evil is reproducible and Goethe formulated its essence: “Unhappy people are dangerous.”
Alexander Sokurov
“Bliss out on the delirium that is FAUST, the latest from Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, FAUST is mesmerizing, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”
- Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker and 2011 Venice Film Festival jury president
The Final Part of the Tetralogy
Moloch – Taurus - The Sun
Winner of the 2011 Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion, FAUST is acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov’s latest film, a hallucinatory re-imagining of Goethe’s masterpiece set in the early 19th century. Using elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust (Johannes Zeiler,) is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment, but becomes obsessed with the lovely Margarete (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself.
The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature – there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations.
FAUST is the final installment of Alexander Sokurov’s cinematic tetralogy on the nature of power. The main characters in the first three films are real historical figures: Adolph Hitler (Moloch, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Taurus, 2000), and Emperor Hirohito (The Sun, 2005). The symbolic image of Faust completes this series of great gamblers who lost the most important wagers of their lives.
DIRECTOR’S COMMENT
Faust is seemingly out of place in this portrait gallery, an almost museum-like literary character framed by a simple plot. What does he have in common with these real figures (from the three previous films about historical figures) who ascended to the pinnacle of power? A love of words that are easy to believe and a pathological unhappiness in everyday life. Evil is reproducible and Goethe formulated its essence: “Unhappy people are dangerous.”
Alexander Sokurov
“Bliss out on the delirium that is FAUST, the latest from Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, FAUST is mesmerizing, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”
- Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker and 2011 Venice Film Festival jury president
Genre
Drama,
Fantasy
Web Site
Runtime
134
Language
German
Director
Aleksander Sokurov
Cast
Johannes Zeiler,
Isolda Dychauk
Awards:
Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Joumane Chahine, Film Comment Magazine
The opening scene sets the tone. After a short prologue in the heavens, the camera rockets us back to earth, into a small German village—part Dürer, part Murnau—and finally settles upon the internal organs of a fresh corpse. Dr. Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is eviscerating a dead man, looking for his ...
Played at
Town Center 5 11.22.13 - 11.27.13
Royal 11.22.13 - 11.28.13
Playhouse 7 11.22.13 - 11.26.13
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