American Faust

"American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi" is a hard-hitting documentary about Condoleezza Rice, an extraordinary woman who rose out of segregated Alabama to become the most powerful woman in the world. Incisive and shocking, this is the first retrospective film on the Bush Administration. It paints a startling portrait of a woman who has changed our world but about whom most of us know very little. It overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman to President Bush to reveal her as his chief confidante with deeper and more enduring influence even than Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove and thus responsible for much of the Bush legacy.

Through the form of a political, biographical documentary, our prominent interviewees tell a Faustian story of a woman whose hubris tempted her into a pursuit of power that destroyed her core values, and hurtled America into a perilous new direction. Directed by Sebastian Doggart.

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