DVD Region 4

Jan Svankmajer's long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Alice is an equally astounding version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Merging live action with stop-motion and claymation animation, Svankmajer has created an unsettling universe presided over by diabolic life-size marionettes and haunted by skulking human messengers from hell. Faust (movingly incarnated by one of the Czech Republic's finest actors, Peter Cepek) is an ordinary, inquisitive everyman who, upon exiting a Prague subway station, is handed a map that draws him to his doom. With breathtaking rapidity Faust's journey takes him to the tops of mountains, drops him in the middle of lakes and sends him out onto the unsuspecting streets of Prague...

Actors: Jiri Suchy, Antonin Zacpal, Vladimir Kudla, Jan Kraus, Petr Cepek

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Languages: Not Specified

Subtitles: Not Specified

Running Time: 97 minutes approx

Discs: 1