IF SOMEONE WERE TO MAKE YOUR WISHES COME TRUE, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK?

Winner of a host of international film awards including a Goya Award for Best Lead Actor
(Eduard Fernández), and Best Film at the 2002 Fantasporto Festival, FAUSTO 5.0 is a
contemporary reworking of the Faust myth as a psychosexual surrealist horror film.

Directed by Álex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz and Carlos Padrisa (better known as members of La Fura Dels Baus,
the controversial experiemental theatre group responsible for the notorious sexually explicit
stage play XXX), the film stars Miguel Ángel Solá (Tango), Eduard Fernández (The Goalkeeper) and
Najwa Nimri (Sex And Lucia). Dr. Fausto (Miguel Ángel Solá), a specialist in terminal medicine, spends most of his waking
hours treating patients on the brink of death. So wrapped up in the routine of his soulless work he
has become a man without dreams - a man closer to death than to life. On his way to attend a
medical conference in Barcelona, Dr. Fausto meets the mysterious Santos Vella (Eduard Fernández), a
man who claims to have once been a patient who Fausto had given up for dead eight years ago
following an operation to remove his stomach. Shocked by the man's story of survival, Fausto
has no memory ever having known him. As exasperating as he is charismatic, and despite
the doctor's protestations, Santos soon becomes Fausto's guide during his stay in the city,
introducing the jaded doctor to the unbridled pleasures and experiences of life, at the same
time promising to grant him anything he desires. Unable to resist the offer, Fausto embarks on a
fantastic and terrible journey into the long-forgotten depths of his own soul.

Visually stunning and superbly performed, FAUSTO 5.0 is an imaginative thriller that hypnotises
the viewer with its disconcerting mix of the erotic and the horrific, each laced with a light
touch of mordant humour.

FAUSTO 5.0 (cert. 18) will be released on DVD
(?14.99) by Nucleus Films on 22nd May 2006.
Special Features include widescreen presentation
(1.85:1) enhanced for widescreen TVs, the making
of Fausto 5.0, theatrical trailer, gallery,
Spanish 5.1 and DTS, Catalan 5.1, English 2.0,
optional English subtitles.

TITLE: FAUSTO 5.0
LABEL/CREDIT: NUCLEUS FILMS
RELEASE DATE: 22ND MAY 2006
FORMAT: DVD (RENTAL)
PRICE: ?14.99
CERT: 18
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