FAUST Director: JAN VANKMAJER CZECH REPUBLIC 1994 SUBTITLED COLOUR DOLBY STEREO 95 MIN Book cinema tickets A MAN STEPS OUT OF THE PRAGUE SUBWAY, IS HANDED A MAP, AND SOON FINDS HIMSELF TRAPPED IN A BIZARRE WORLD INSPIRED BY THE FAUST LEGEND, COMPLETE WITH ALCHEMICAL SPELLS AND ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DEVIL. Originally planned as a theatre production, vankmajer’s reinvention of the Faust legend combines texts from Christopher Marlowe, Goethe, the German 19th century dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Charles Gounod, and the traditional Czech puppet play. Working with the stage and screen actor Petr Cepek, who plays the central role, vankmajer sought a performance with no development, situated on the borders of dream and reality. A work of macabre humour and alchemical force, the film’s mix of life-size and miniature puppets, together with the clay heads familiar from vankmajer’s short films, provides an extraordinary take on the nature of identity. Director: JAN VANKMAJER CZECH REPUBLIC 1994 SUBTITLED COLOUR DOLBY STEREO 95 MIN