La Leçon Faust

Eraserhead without subtlety. A man finds a map that leads him to a bizarre theater, where he's conscripted into playing Faust. Švankmajer's signature grotesqueries overwhelm any deeper reading of the ur-text.

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Jan Švankmajer directed La Leçon Faust in 1994. See Jan Švankmajer's full filmography, where to start with Jan Švankmajer, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jan Švankmajer.

La Leçon Faust was released in 1994 (CS original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.