Faust (region-free DVD)

Svankmajer's Faust is an ordinary, inquisitive everyman who, upon exiting a Prague subway station, is handed a map that draws him to his doom. Led to an abandoned theatre he finds a copy of Goethe's Faust, begins to read aloud, and unwittingly summons up a devil who offers him everything his heart desires in return for his soul. Peopled with shape-changing demons and puppet versions of Goethe's characters, Svankmajer's tour-de-force is alternately hilarious and shocking, always unique, and ultimately unforgettable.