Faust [Blu-ray]

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Overview

The famous tale of a man willing to bargain away his soul gets a new interpretation in this film from director/co-screenwriter Alexander Sokurov. Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is a wise man who has become frustrated with the boundaries of human knowledge; his experiments in turning base metals into gold keep failing, he questions the nature of the human soul, and he's infatuated with a woman named Margarete (Isolda Dychauk) who doesn't care for him. While browsing through a curious pawnshop, Faust encounters a foul but chatty moneylender (Anton Adasinsky) who offers to make Margarete attracted to him in exchange for his signature on a document surrendering ownership of his soul. Faust accepts, and after accidentally killing a young man in a barroom brawl, he discovers the victim is Margarete's brother; after the funeral, she sleeps with him against all logic. However, Faust is taken aback when the moneylender appears to demand what is now rightfully his. Faust received its North American premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/16/2014
UPC:	0738329143725
Original Release:	2011
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Lorber
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:19:00
Sales rank:	7,819

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charles Gounod	Composer
Dan Ettinger	Conductor
Erwin Schrott	Performer
Diana Damrau	Performer
Irina Lungu	Performer
Stéphane Degout	Performer
Germán E Alcántara	Performer
Varduhi Abrahamyan	Performer
Carole Wilson	Performer
Johannes Zeiler	Heinrich Faust
Anton Adasinsky	Moneylender
Isolda Dychauk	Margarete
Hanna Schygulla	Moneylender's 'Wife'
Antje Lewald	Margarete's Mother
Maxim Mehmet	Valentin's Friend
Oliver Bootz	Valentin's Friend
Prodromos Antoniadis	Notarius
David Jonsson	Greek Boy
Antoine Monot Jr.	Monk With the Basket
Ondrej Novák	Student
Lars Rudolph	Innkeeper
Jonas Jägermeyr	Valentin's Friend
Georg Friedrich	Wagner
Florian Brückner	Valentin
Sigurdur Skulason	Faust's Father
Leonid Mozgovoy	Russian Businessman/Russian Countess
René Pribil	Actor
Andrey Sigle	Composer

Technical Credits

Aleksandr Sokurov

Yuriy Arabov

Marina Koreneva

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aleksandr Sokurov	Director,Screenwriter
Yuriy Arabov	Screenwriter
Marina Koreneva	Screenwriter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Screenwriter
Ton Kern	Special Effects
Makar Akhpashev	Sound Effects
Pavel Doreuli	Sound Effects
Andrey Sigle	Producer