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Animation | Drama | Fantasy ! clay | egg | surrealism | deal with the devil | chicken

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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. Svankmajer's Faust
is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre,
finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors,
clay model animation and giant puppets.
Written by Michael Brooke

The best film of one of the world's best filmmakers.
16 April 1999 | by Will Robinson Sheff (wsheff@hotmail.com) (Austin, TX)

Jan Svankmajer is one of the best animators of all time and one of the best artists of the
20th century. There is simply no one else making animation like this: disturbing, hilarious,
dreamlike. "Faust" is one of the best films I have ever seen, combining the visual sensibility
of Salvador Dali with the philosophical sensibility of Mikhail Bulgakov. Powerful, surreal,
and more intelligent than any animation anywhere.