Doctor Faustus
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Franz Seitz Junior
Franz Seitz Junior
Casts & Crew
Jon Finch
André Heller
Hanns Zischler
Margot Hielscher
Siemen Rühaak
Lothar G. Buchheim
Marie-Hélène Breillat
Gaby Dohm
Heinz Weiss
Enzi Fuchs
Michael Gempart
Herbert Grönemeyer
Elma Karlowa
Wilfried Klaus
Alice Treff
Also Directed by Franz Seitz Junior
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall
Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee.
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