Faust

2011 · 140 min · DE · 6.6 (216 votes)

Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov · Starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk-Ott, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Florian Brückner · Music Andrey Sigle

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A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.

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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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