director:
Ken Russell
playwright:
Arrigo Boito
actor:
Paata Burchuladze
/
Ottavio Garaventa
/
Adriana Morelli
genre:
Music
/
TV Movie
region:
United States
language:
Italian
length: 2h 17m
release date: 1989-01-01
IMDb: tt0097859
Overview
Arrigo Boito's most known work is Il Mefestefele, first performed in 1868. Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera has Faust as an ageing hippy, who smokes marijuana and is tormented by his lost youth. Mephisto bets God that he can turn anyone to pagan life, even someone as innocent as Faust. It becomes a battle of good against evil in a flamboyant, surreal display of primary colours, PVC costumes, nurses with swastikas, rocket trips, love and even characters dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.