Lesson Faust

IMDb link: 0109781
IMDb rating: 7.3 (4,733 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Director: Jan Kraus, Jan Svankmajer
Cast: Petr Cepek, Vladimir Kudla, Antonin Zacpal and others

Release date: 7 Apr 1995
Release year: 1994
Runtime: 97 minutes
Country: Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, Germany
Keywords: folk horror, psychotronic film, literature on screen, european literature on screen, british literature on screen, foreign language adaptation, 19th century literature on screen, 16th century literature on screen, fantasy literature on screen, arthouse horror

Plot:

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay model animation and giant puppets.

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