The crux of the matter

The core of the matter stands for:

• a phrase that goes back to Goethe's Faust I , see Faust. A tragedy. # Study room (I) - Poodle scene: Faust, Mephisto
• The Poodle's Core (1958) ( The Horse's Mouth ), British film directed by Ronald Neame
• Des Pudels Kern (1975) , German-Austrian television film by Vojtěch Jasný
• The core of the matter (novel) ( The Horse's Mouth ), novel by Joyce Cary (1944)
• Des Pudels Kern (Lied) , piece of music by the songwriter Ulrich Roski (1974)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.