FAUST

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Animation, Fantasy
• Plot: Jan Svankmajer's long awaited follow-up to his acclaimed 'Alice' is an equally astounding version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Merging live action with stop motion and claymation animation, Svankmajer has created an unsettling universe presided over by diabolic life-size marionettes and haunted by skulking human messengers from hell.; Svankmajer's Faust (movingly incarnated by one of the Czech Republic's finest actors, Peter Cape) is an ordinary, inquisitive everyman who, upon exiting a Prague subway station, is handed a map that draws him to his doom. Led to an abandoned theater, he finds a copy of Goethe's Faust, begins to read aloud, and unwittingly summons up a devil who offers him everything his heart desires in return for his soul. With breathtaking rapidity, Faust's journey takes him to the tops of mountains, drops him in the middle of lakes and sends him out onto the unsuspecting streets of Prague. Peopled with shape-changing demons and puppet-versions of Goethe's characters, Svankmajer's tour-de-force is alternately hilarious and shocking, always unique, and ultimately unforgettable.
• Cast: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jirí Suchý, Viktorie Knotková, Jana Mézlová, Miluse Straková, Josef Fiala, Martin Radimecký, Ervín Tomendál, Frantisek Polata, Josef Chodora, Karel Vidimský, Petr Meissel, Rudolf Ruzek, Milan Vyskocil, Pavel Marek, Dalibor Fencl, Robert Blanda, Michaela Tyllerová, Vendula Pecová, Berenika Strettiová, Zita Morávková, Gillian Wood, Zuzana Drazilová, Karel Hamr, Zbynek Mayer, Karel Vild, Martin Kublák, Monika Chlustinová, Jirí Liska, Joseph Vedral, Václav Svankmajer, Pavel Valenta, Stanislava Babická, Lenka Havránková, Magda Horejsová, Petra Hrstková, Vera Masopustová, Josef Podsedník, Jaroslava Zelenková, Andrew Sachs, Jan Svankmajer
• Director: Jan Svankmajer
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Image Ent.
• Media Format: movie