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Faust spends his days dissecting grisly corpses, brooding over the location of the soul and agonising over his extreme poverty. When a demonic pawnbroker offers him riches in exchange for his immortal soul, Faust signs in blood, but soon finds himself drawn from one disquieting encounter to the next as his deal with the devil takes hold. Playing out like a single, seamless, continuously morphing scene, Aleksandr Sokurov’s adaptation of Goethe’s classic tragedy is part bad dream, part music-less opera, captured in the director’s signature soft-focus visual style. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 2011.