Faust (2011 film) (2011)

Original title

Faust

Directed by

Alexander Sokurov

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

Germany, Russia

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 210 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man named Faust makes a deal with a strange moneylender who may be the devil. He trades his soul for knowledge and worldly pleasures in 19th century Germany.

philosophicalslow-burnintrospectiveatmosphericbroodingcerebralmelancholicdreamlike

What happens

Faust (Russian: Фауст) is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its respective literary adaptations by both Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808) as well as Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German. The film won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. At the 2012 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the film was awarded the prizes for Best Film, Best Director (Alexander Sokurov), Best Script (Yuri Arabov) and Best Male Supporting Actor (Anton Adasinsky). It received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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