“There are only few literary figures that are always good at enflaming passions and inciting debates. One of these immortals is Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust. The desperate scholar has conquered countless theatres and his pact with Mephisto has been sealed in a number of films.
Most recently, the Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov developed a fascinating new interpretation of the myth for his film Faust for which he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival … The alchemist, who teeters on the brink of the abyss, is wonderfully played by Viennese actor Johannes Zeiler.”
> interview (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
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