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The Devil Made Him Do It: Czech Animator Revisits `Faust'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950224
Author:Lynn Voedisch

FAUST (STAR) (STAR) Faust Petr Cepek Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer. Based on the plays by Goethe and Christopher Marlowe. Running time: 97 minutes. No MPAA rating (contains one sexual situation and some gore). Opening today at the Music Box. Imagining Faust as a marionette, lurching about a tiny stage on strings pulled by fate, is easy. The hero of Goethe and Christopher Marlowe's classic plays is really nothing more than a puppet the minute he sells his soul to the devil.

Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer goes one step further in his feature film "Faust," however, and turns the ...

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