VENICE, Italy, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Acclaimed Russian director Alexander Sokurov returns to the theme of corrupting power in his new film "Faust", the fourth and final part of a series on the topic but ...

I’ve heard my father’s home country of the Czech Republic (Czechia) called, “The Wild West of Europe.” That people went there when they, “wanted to do drugs and shoot illegal fireworks.” It’s quite ...

Westword: When did you first learn about the Faust films? Joel Haertling: I think when we went to Telluride Film Festival in ’86. That’s when we were talking about doing it. I said to Brakhage, “Well, ...

- Russian film "Faust," loosely based on Goethe's classic German text, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday. The movie, directed by the revered Alexander ...

This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of ...