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Faust is a film of genre Drama directed by Alexandre Sokourov released in USA on 15 november 2011 with Isolda Dychauk

Faust (2011)

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Faust
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Released in USA 15 november 2011
Length 2h14
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Genres Drama,    Fantasy
Rating65% 3.2508153.2508153.2508153.2508153.250815

Faust is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German. The film won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

Synopsis

Heinrich Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is driven by his longing for enlightenment. He seeks to understand the very nature of life and how it makes the world go round. Driven by his burning desire for cognition, he even unearths corpses and rummages in their guts just to localize the home of the soul.

Actors

Isolda Dychauk

(Margarete)Hanna Schygulla

(Moneylender's Wife)Maxim Mehmet

(Valentins Freund)Georg Friedrich

(Wagner)Andreas Schmidt

(Valentins Freund)
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