Faust (2012)

Release Date: February 9th, 2012

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Writers: Aleksandr Sokurov, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Marina Koreneva, Yuri Arabov

Actors: Anton Adasinsky, Hanna Schygulla, Isolda Dychauk, Johannes Zeiler

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: Not available

Official site: Not available

Studio: Proline Film

A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.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.