Fausto 5.0

2001 film by Àlex Ollé

Fausto 5.0

Directed by	Alex Ollé Carlos Padrissa Isidro Ortiz
Written by	Fernando León de Aranoa
Based on	Faust legend (Goethe)
Produced by	Eduardo Campoy Alicia Gallardo Ramón Vidal
Starring	Eduard Fernández Irene Montalà Juan Fernández Miguel Ángel Solá Najwa Nimri Raquel González [es]
Cinematography	Pedro del Rey
Edited by	Manel J. Frasquiel
Music by	Josep Maria Sanou Toni M. Mir
Distributed by	Lauren Films
Release date	30 August 2001, Venice Biennale
Running time	93 mins
Country	Spain
Languages	Catalan, Spanish

Fausto 5.0 is a fantasy film made in Spain and released in 2001.

Fausto 5.0 is the last part of a trilogy dedicated to the figure of Faust. The first two instalments were F@ust 3.0 (originally a play) and The Damnation of Faust (originally an opera).^[1] All three films were developed for the screen by La Fura dels Baus, an experimental theatre group from Barcelona.^[2]

Plot

A doctor – Fausto – on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meets a former patient – Santos Vella – who promises to grant his every wish. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Awards

Méliès d'Or Award, 2002 (among others) for the best European fantasy film^[6]
International Fantasy Film Award (Best Film), Fantasporto 2002^[7]
Grand Prize, Gérardmer Film Festival 2002^[7]

References

^ Empire magazine
^ "La Fura dels Baus website". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
^ Peter Bradshaw, Review in The Guardian, 6 June 2003
^ Fausto 5.0, IMDb: plot summary
^ Faust 5.0, The New York Times
^ "Méliès d'Or". melies.org. European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
^ ^a ^b Fausto 5.0, IMDb: awards

External links

Fausto 5.0 at IMDb
Fausto 5.0 at AllMovie

Works based on Faust

Folk legend

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Doctor Faustus (1592 play)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- Faust, Part One
- Faust, Part Two

Prose

"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
Auriol (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–1940)
Mephisto (1936)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
The Last Faust (2019)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Damn Yankees (1955)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)

Operas

Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

Ballets

Faust ballets

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony (Brian)
Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt)

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider
Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Faustian Echoes" (2012) "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)

Films

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897)
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
Rapsodia satanica (1915)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Mephisto (1981)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Crossroads (1986)
Faust (1994)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Goat Story (2008)
Faust (2011)
The Last Faust (2019)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)
Disco Inferno (2004)

Comics

Gods' Man (1929)
Faust (manga) (1950)
Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
Faust (comics) (1987)
Frau Faust (2014)

Art

Mephistopheles and Margaretta
Paintings

Category

v t e Méliès d'Or winning films
The Day of the Beast (1996) Train of Shadows (1997) Photographing Fairies (1998) The Nameless (1999) Possessed (2000) Thomas in Love (2001) Fausto 5.0 (2002) The Green Butchers (2003) Code 46 (2004) Adam's Apples (2006) Princess (2007) Let the Right One In (2008) Martyrs (2009) Buried (2010) The Last Circus (2011) Vanishing Waves (2012) In the Name of the Son (2013) Alleluia (2014) Goodnight Mommy (2015) Raw (2016) Thelma (2017) Climax (2018) In Fabric (2019) Pelican Blood (2020) Censor (2021) Piggy (2022) LOLA (2023)

Méliès d'Or winning films