Faust
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Region 2, 1 disc(s), Disc format DVD 9 dual layer, Interactive menus, Scene access, Ratio (1:1.78 (16:9) widescreen), Languages (German), Sound (Dolby Digital 5.1), Other Language Sound Dolby Digital 2.0, Subtitles (English)

Made in 2011

Based on the German folk tale/The play by Goethe/The book by Yuri Arabov

Cast: Johannes Zeiler, Isolda Dychauk, Anton Adasinsky, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Antje Lewald, Florian Bruckner, Sigurur Skulason, Maxim Mehmet, Andreas Schmidt

Credits: music, Andrei Sigle; cinematographer, Bruno Delbonnel

Aleksandr Sokurov directs this German-language adaptation of the classic tale about a man who sells his soul to the Devil. The story, woven into the fabric of Western culture thanks to the influential theatrical adaptations by playwrights Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, follows a scientist, Faust (Johannes Zeiler), in search of knowledge. However, while in Goethe's version Faust is in search of the secrets of the universe, Sokurov's scientist has far more base motives. Obsessed with the beautiful Margarete (Isolda Dychauk), Faust makes a deal with the Devil's representative on Earth, the Moneylender (Anton Adasinsky), to gain the secrets that will win Margarete's heart, but what price will the Moneylender extract in return?

BBFC code: 15