A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman. Golden Lion at Venice's Mostra. Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe and eventually sells his soul to the Devil also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself.

Keywords

• La Biennale di Venezia !
• Michaël R. Roskam's favorite films
• Mostra: The best from the previous years

Actors

• Florian Brückner
• Isolda Dychauk
• Sigurdur Skulasson
• Georg Friedrich
• Johannes Zeiler
• Antje Lewald
• Hanna Schygulla
• Anton Adansinskiy

Director

• Alexandre Sokourov