U.S. distributors Kino Lorber have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray director Aleksandr Sokurov's
Faust (2011), starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, and Hanna Schygulla. The release will be available for purchase on September 16th.
Winner of the 2011 Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion,
Faust is acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov's hallucinatory re-imagining of Goethe's masterpiece, set in the early 19th century.
Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment, but becomes obsessed with the lovely Margarete (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky), also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself.
Using elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations,
Faust conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend.