Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2011. Russian screenwriter and director Alexander Sokurov's fifteenth feature film tells the story of scholar Heinrich Faust, a man with a great hunger for knowledge. Heinrich is not pleased with his mundane life, but when allured by Mephistopheles he becomes enchanted by a woman named Margarete. A wandering, philosophical and in-depth study of character about a man who makes a life-altering compromise for the sake of knowledge.
Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2011. Russian screenwriter and director Alexander Sokurov's fifteenth feature film tells the story of scholar Heinrich Faust, a man with a great hunger for knowledge. Heinrich is not pleased with his mundane life, but when allured by Mephistopheles he becomes enchanted by a woman named Margarete. A wandering, philosophical and in-depth study of character about a man who makes a life-altering compromise for the sake of knowledge.
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