Faust

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6.5/10

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Faust is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment, but becomes obsessed with the lovely Margarete and eventually sells his soul to the Devil also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her.

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A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

5.9K

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Awards
- 15 wins & 27 nominations total

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Featured review

6/10

Ugly and unpleasant--but isn´t that the point?

Compared to an aesthetic depiction of something like The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, also a story of corruption, this ugly, often grotestque film, loosely based on Goethe´s Faust, is disappointing. It was a slog to get through because it was so drab and disgusting. Dust and darkness everywhere. Gross, deformed characters. Filth, misery, poverty, disease. Rats. Altogether quite unpleasant to watch. Still, I have to say that the director succeeds in creating a film as depressing as its subject: the corruption of a human being and the selling of his soul.

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It won the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. It is the 3rd Russian film to be crowned best film in Venice, after Ivan's Childhood (1962) and The Return (2003).