In Faust, Alexandre Sokourov revisits the timeless myth of the man who makes a pact with the devil. Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it completes the director's tetralogy on power. The Russian director is not content to reinterpret Goethe; he delves into the meanders of the human soul, exploring the depths of the quest for knowledge and power. He sets his characters in a 19th-century German village, in a twilight world that takes us back to paintings by Bosch or Bruegel. Faust is a pioneer, eager for knowledge, who signs a diabolical pact with the usurer Mauricius and sells him his soul. We follow his inner and physical journey, until Margerete appears and suspends his course for a while. A perfect blend of the splendid and the macabre, the praise of doubt and the beauty of mystery, Sokourov's Faust is a masterpiece.
Russia / 2011 / drama
directed by Alexander Sokurov
screenplay Alexander Sokurov, Marina Koreneva
starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
1 h 34 / VOST