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| Genre/Form: | Feature films Puppet films Animated films Experimental films Film adaptations Drama Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées Films |
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| Named Person: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Christopher Marlowe; Christian Dietrich Grabbe; Faust; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Christopher Marlowe; Christian Dietrich Grabbe; Faust |
| Material Type: | Partial animation, Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Švankmajer; Jaromír Kallista; Bedrich Glaser; Petr Čepek; Jiří Suchý; Andrew Sachs; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Christopher Marlowe; Christian Dietrich Grabbe; Heart of Europe Prague K Productions.; Lumen Productions.; Kino International Corporation.; Image Entertainment (Firm); et al |
| OCLC Number: | 45789020 |
| Notes: | "Dialogue taken from Faust plays by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christopher Marlowe and Czech Folk Puppeteers." Originally produced in 1994 by Heart of Europe Prague K Productions & Lumen Films. |
| Credits: | Art direction, Eva Svankmajerova & Jan Svankmajer ; animation, Bedrich Glaser ; photography, Svatopluk Maly ; editor, Marie Zemanova ; choreography, Daria Vobornikova ; sound, Ivo Spalj ; English version director, Matt McCarthy ; English version editor, Alan Brett ; English dialogue by George Roubicek. |
| Cast: | Petr Čepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimir Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jiří Suchý. |
| Performer(s): | English voices, Andrew Sachs. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD. |
| Other Titles: | Lekce Faust. Doctor Faustus |
| Responsibility: | Kino International ; Heart of Europe Prague K Production & Lumen Films ; in co-production with BBC Bristol, Koninck & Pandora Films ; an Athanor production of a film by Jan Svankmajer ; executive producers, Karl Baumgartner ... [et al.] ; produced by Jaromír Kallista ; written and directed by Jan Svankmajer. |
Abstract:
An everyman lured off the streets of Prague finds himself becoming Faust and entering a world of mind-boggling magic and strange encounters. He summons up Mephisto, makes his awful pact and is plunged into a world of laughing devils, dreams and nightmares.
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