FAUST

With a plot based on the historical Faust legend, Švankmajer’s FAUST is set in a surreal and distorted present day. After participating in a kind of involuntary paper-chase, an average man on the street finds himself inside an old theatre and a labyrinthine world of wooden marionettes. Casually transformed into Faust by means of make-up and script, he signs his pact with Mephistopheles and exploits the latter’s services to the full. But exactly who is pulling the strings in this play of appearances and deceit? And is puppet theatre really as innocuous as it looks?