Faust
Screening on Film
Directed by Jan Svankmajer.
With Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla.
Czech Republic/UK, 1994, 35mm, color, 97 min.
With Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla.
Czech Republic/UK, 1994, 35mm, color, 97 min.
Svankmajer’s Faust is an inquisitive Everyman who, exiting a Prague metro, is handed a map which leads him to his Mephistopheles in an abandoned theater. Brimming with seductions of the supernatural, shape-changing demons, puppet versions of characters from Goethe, leading Faust, attracted by satanic promises, toward his doom.
