Faust is a luxurious German production that ensured Murnau a contract with the Hollywood studio Fox. Mefisto, brilliantly portrayed by Emil Jannings, offers to the old Faust an opportunity to be young again, for the price of his soul. This is a highly stylized film, which was disturbingly realistic at the time of its creation.
PROGRAME ARCHIVE: FILM
Faust
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage, feature film, fantazija, horror, Germany, 1926
DIRECTED BY: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
CAST:
Gösta Ekman (Faust),
Emil Jannings (Mephisto),
Camilla Horn (Gretchen / Marguerite),
Frida Richard (majka od Gretchen / Marguerite),
William Dieterle (Valentin,
brat od Gretchen / Marguerite)
SCRIPT:
Hans Kyser,
Gerhart Hauptmann (based on story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & theater play by Christopher Marlowe)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Carl Hoffmann
Synopsis:
b/w, silent, 107'