Faust
Faust
Sokurov Waltz
This chapter reviews the film Faust (2011). Faust, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, is a free adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous book. The film, financed in great part with Russian government funds and under the auspices of Vladimir Putin, was meant by its backers to promote the rapprochement and dialogue between German and Russian cultures. Such a grand project, rife with nationalistic and political implications, also closes Sokurov's tetralogy of power, ironically highly entwined with the historical echoes of this “dialogue” between the two cultures. With Faust, Sokurov not only crowns the tetralogy and its exploration of the nature of power and the price of the human soul, but also his career itself.
Keywords: Russia, Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Vladimir Putin, German culture, Russian culture, power, human soul
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