Sound Energy: Faust | show with live music by Haxan Ensemble

directed by F. W. Murnau|Germany|1926

The film is based on the drama “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and German legends and folk tales. The protagonist of the film is Dr. Faust, who, in order to prevent the plague epidemic in his city, makes a 24-hour pact with the devil Mephistopheles. However, the desire for eternal youth and love prevails with reason, and Faust continues his extraordinary journey, which is to decide the fate of the world. The director of the film Friedrich Murnau, using unique techniques of playing with light and shadow in his film, once again overtook his contemporary productions, laying the foundations for contemporary cinematography.

The Haxan Ensemble, a band of four musicians and a voiceover, specializes in creating unique, original soundtracks for silent classics. Thanks to extensive instrumentation and synchronization with the picture, the artists take viewers into the mysterious world of horror, revealing a completely new dimension of the perception of silent cinema. “Faust” is after “Haxan” and “Nosferatu-Symphony of Horror”, another film voiced by the band, and the show as part of the Energy of Sound will be the premiere of this cinematic masterpiece for the team.

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