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Faust

1994 · 97 min

A surreal, unsettling descent into a puppet-theatre nightmare, blending live action and stop-motion to create a dreamlike, Kafkaesque experience.

Overview
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. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • madness
  • fate
  • art
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour4
Realism3
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity9
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
fantasy
Directed by
Jan Švankmajer
Written by
Jan Švankmajer
Starring
Petr Čepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonín Zacpal, Jiří Suchý, Viktorie Knotková, Jana Mézlová, Miluse Straková
Cinematography
Svatopluk Malý
Runtime
97 min
Country
Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, Germany
Languages
Czech, Latin

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