Où se niche l'âme dans le corps humain ? Obsédé par cette question, le docteur Faust éviscère quotidiennement des cadavres avec son disciple, Wagner. Mais ses recherches ne donnent rien et le savant mène une vie misérable. Après avoir demandé sans succès de l'aide à son père, Faust se tourne vers Mauricius, un vieil usurier au physique hideux, avec qui il établit rapidement une relation de compagnonnage…
Tourmenteur de l'humanité avec la guerre, la peste ou la famine, Méphisto considère que la terre lui appartient. L'Archange Gabriel lui évoque le nom de Faust, un vieux savant, un juste dont la vie entière est la preuve que la terre n'est pas totalement soumise au Mal. Méphisto promet de détourner de Dieu l'âme de Faust. Alors la terre sera tienne, promet l'Archange... Dans son village décimé par la peste, Faust, désespéré, trouve un grimoire lui permettant d'invoquer le Diable, et signe avec lui un pacte de 24 heures pour sauver les malades. Mais les villageois s'en aperçoivent et veulent le lapider. En proie au suicide, Faust accepte une nouvelle proposition de Méphisto : retrouver sa jeunesse en échange de son âme…
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
Procureur et homme politique honnête, Joseph Foster veut devenir gouverneur. Un jour, un mystérieux étranger, un certain Nick Beal, lui rend visite pour lui proposer un marché. Séduit par une prostituée, Donna, qui n'est autre que la complice de Beal, Foster accepte son offre mais, peu à peu, il se rend compte qu'il a pactisé avec le Diable...
‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.
A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells his soul to the evil powers. The Devil takes him to hell and since then there is a blackened hole on the ceiling of a Prague house.
Vincent Salinger, an edgy uninspired poet, fumes at being spurned by his publisher. Suspecting his work and life mean nothing, Vincent seeks new inspiration. An unexpected visit from quasi-demonic friend of poetry introduces Vincent to a clever East-European escort girl who thinks up a literary hoax for success but at the risk of Vincent losing his integrity and identity. Things become more complicated when a rival muse falls in love with Vincent and Vincent's hoax suddenly materializes to haunt him.
A troubled mortician embarks on an odyssey for truth about life and death.
When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.
REAL Zombies, Vampires, Witches and Demons - NOTHING is off limits in La La Land. Thousands of Hollywood hopefuls lineup around the block to be selected to strike a deal with Satan himself in order to achieve the unattainable stardom they so desperately seek. The turnout yields not only dedicated actors and musicians who can't get a break, but a legion of seemingly successful people willing to sign in blood not to attain immortality or world peace - but for material things like money, houses, cars and diamonds or even lesser things like a gun you never have to re-load. Ultimately, Kai Blackwood, an aspiring rock star is chosen and embarks on a nefarious path of real-life occult practices following the instructions laid out in the ancient book 'Le Grande Grimoire' and proceeds to LITERALLY sell his soul to the Devil.
Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on it's opening night and ends up condicting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.
“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A sense of story is inferred through the complex interweaving of human gesture, expression, and bodily movement within vibrantly shifting colours and rhythmic development, creating multiple levels of metaphorical meaning. A collaborative work with paintings by Emily Ripley and soundtrack by Joel Haertling.
John Faustus, frontier doctor, sells his soul for power, riches, and free health-care! But will he be able to control himself before he changes the space-time continuum?
Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, if Faust hands over his soul. Faust agrees, and Méphistophélès arranges matters so that Marguerite loses interest in her suitor Siébel and becomes infatuated with Faust. Faust initially seems to love Marguerite in return, but soon abandons her. Her brother Valentin returns from the war and is furious to find his sister pregnant. Will Faust repent his destructive actions, and can his soul, and Marguerite's, be saved?