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Driven and somewhat sadistic materialist
- Sokurov rethinks Faust as a driven and somewhat sadistic materialist, beset with money worries, and Mephistopheles as the apparent answer to his problems: a moneylender.
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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 as well as Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German.
Whereas the devil in Goethe’s Faust opens up a world for a closed-up looser, Sokurov’s Faust doubts the good intentions of his companion as their journey moves on. Later in the film, Faust even kills the devil by lapidating him in desperate rage.
Nov 14, 2013 · The Faust legend—freshly reinterpreted in Aleksandr Sokurov’s film, which opens Friday at Film Forum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center—first appeared in print in late 16th-century Germany by way of a handful of anonymously authored booklets.
His approach allows the director to change the more positive endings which you find in all filmic adaptations of Faust, and in the two parts of the theatre piece. There is no redemption, no hope, no salvation.
Winner of the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Alexander Sokurov’s retelling of the Faust legend finally arrives on these shores. But it’s not just the film’s hero who’s suffering from hubris, says Tony Rayns.
Nov 15, 2013 · Swooping into an antique Germany via an initial descent-through-the-clouds that recalls “Triumph of the Will,” Russian director Alexander Sokurov continues his “Faust” with a visit to the laboratory of his eponymous anti-hero, who, shadowed by a servile assistant, is busy carving up a naked cadaver. The constantly moving camera glides ...
Nov 14, 2013 · The man who makes the deal with the devil, played by Johannes Zeiler, is back onscreen in a new interpretation of the Faust story from director Alexander Sokurov. Leisure Time Features....
