Faust

Faust

2011 · 140 min · DE · 6.6 (182 votes)
Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov · Starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk-Ott, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Florian Brückner · Music Andrey Sigle
FantasyDrama

Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.

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A visually stunning, operatic descent into forbidden desire and cosmic bargains. It's a brooding, gothic spectacle of earthly obsessions clashing with infernal forces, wrapped in a dark, melancholic mood.

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