19.01.22
Events
Faust (1926) / Country: Germany / Director: F. W. Murnau / Length: 106 min. / Titles: German, English / Entrance: FREE
The screening will be followed by a talk between Eranda Bokshi, film programmer at Kino ARMATA, and philosophy scholar Glauk Konjufca.
Faust is a 1926 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau, drawing on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic version. Faust was Murnau's last German film, and directly afterward he moved to the US to direct Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). It is considered by critics as one the most visually sophisticated films ever made and a timeless classic in the horror genre.
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888 – 1931) was a German film director, greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force. He created the 1922 vampire thriller Nosferatu, as well as such compelling examination of love as 1927's Sunrise and 1931's Tabu. Murnau's promising career was cut short by a car accident in 1931.
REVIEW: https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/faust
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Kino ARMATA's public program is supported by Prishtina Municipality and Goethe Institut.