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Mood:
- ContemplativeGloomyAtmosphericBleak
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Plot:
- Tragic HeroBlind AmbitionDownfallHuman NatureAmbitionLife is a BitchMind and SoulUnfulfillment
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Genres:
- DramaFantasyPeriodForeign
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Time/Period:
- 19th Century
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Place:
- EuropeGermanyPalaces Castles and Temples
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Praise:
- Prestigious AwardsVenice Festival Winner
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on PlayBased on Folk Tale
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Score:
- Classical
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Faust, 2011
German
Russia
Profile of Faust
The mood of Faust is gloomy, contemplative, and bleak. The plot centers around a downfall, blind ambition, and a tragic hero. It is a drama, foreign, and period movie. In approach, Faust is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a palace, castle, or temple. The setting is Germany. Faust happens in the 19th century. The musical score is classical. It is drawn from a folktale, adapted from a play, and based on a book. Faust is known for being a Venice Festival winner.
Summary of Faust
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. An anonymous man driven by simple instincts: hunger, greed, lust. An unhappy, hounded creature that issues a challenge to Goethe’s Faust. Why stay in the moment if one can go further? Further and further, pressing forward – not noticing that time stands still. And you shall pass, too.
Details
| Language: | German |
| Country: | Russia |
| Release date: | 26 October 2011 |
| Runtime: | 134 min |
Cast and Crew
as Moneylender's 'Wife'
as Gretchen
as Wagner
as Valentins Friend
