Winner of the Golden Lion (Best Film) at Venice Film Festival 2011. Based on the Faust legend, this twisted German...
Winner of the Golden Lion (Best Film) at Venice Film Festival 2011. Based on the Faust legend, this twisted German tragedy tells the tale of a man who receives knowledge from the devil in exchange for his soul.
"Sokurov’s Faust is not a film adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy in the usual sense, but a reading of what remains between the lines. What is the colour of a world that gives rise to colossal ideas? What does it smell like? It is stuffy in Faust’s world: earthshaking plans are born in the cramped space where he scurries about. He is a thinker, a mouthpiece for ideas, a transmitter of words, a schemer, a daydreamer." (Venice Film Festival)
This concludes director Aleksandr Sokurov’s 'Tetralogy of Power', following Molokh, Taurus and The Sun.
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- Award winner
- Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2011.
- Runtime
- 133
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy
- Country of origin
- Russia