Award winning ‘Faust’, Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov will be screened at 6 pm on November 2 at the Russian Centre Auditorium. 2011 film version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, the film has won the Golden Lion at the Venice [...]

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Award winning ‘Faust’, Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov will be screened at 6 pm on November 2 at the Russian Centre Auditorium.

2011 film version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, the film has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Faust tells the story of a professor, played by Johannes Zeiler, who craves knowledge and sells his soul for the love of Margarete, played by ? Isolda Dychauk. It is the final installment of Sokurov’s ?series about the corrupting nature of power – Moloch, Taurus and The Sun featured Hitler, Lenin and Hirohito ?respectively

Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German. The film won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

The film is the final part in a series of films where Alexander Sokurov explores the corrupting effects of power. The previous installments are three biographical dramas: about Adolf Hitler in Moloch from 1999, Vladimir Lenin in Taurus from 2001, and the Japanese emperor Hirohito in The Sun from 2005.




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