The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

(2009)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 2,948 votes

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Year: 2009

Runtime: 123 мин

Country: Canada, France

Director: Терри Гиллиам

Cast: Кристофер Пламмер, Лили Коул, Хит Леджер, Эндрю Гарфилд, Verne Troyer, Том Уэйтс, Джонни Депп, Джуд Лоу, Колин Фаррелл, Фрейзер Айтчесон

Plot

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.

In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises the audience a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus, where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have lived for more than one thousand years; However, when he fell in love with a mortal woman, he made a deal with the devil (Mr. Nick), trading his immortality for youth. As part of the bargain, he promised his son or daughter to Mr. Nick on their sixteenth birthday. Valentina is now almost to the doomed age and Doctor Parnassus makes a new bet with Mr. Nick, whoever seduces five souls in the Imaginarium will have Valentina as a prize. Meanwhile the troupe rescues Tony, a young man that was hanged on a bridge by the Russians. Tony was chased until he finds and joins the group. Tony and Valentina fall in love with each other and the jealous Anton discovers that his competition may be a liar.