Doctor Faustus
An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
Jamileh Sheikhi
Mephistophilis
Parviz Pourhosseini
Doctor Faustus
Javad Khodadadi
Wagner
Dariush Moaddabian
Farshid Ebrahimian
Mehdi Miami
Soheila Razavi
Jamshid Jahanzadeh
An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
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Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.